"The beauty of the 2nd amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." -Thomas Jefferson. TFM.

  1. Corrections Officer

    Many quotes attributing support for a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment to various founding fathers have been fabricated. Some of these are:

    * The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
    o Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson; first reported in Matt Carson, On A Hill They Call Capital: A Revolution Is Coming‎ (2007), p. 131. Not found prior to 2007.

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

    14 years ago at 1:09 am