Quote for the day

"In the Criminal Code of 1926 there was a most stupid Article 139- on the limits of self-defense- according to which you had the right to unsheath your knife only after the criminal's knife was hovering over you. And you could stab him only after he stabbed you. And otherwise you would be the one put on trial... The state, in its Criminal Code, forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not itself undertake to defend them!"
from The Gulag Archipelago Two by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn