For any lawful purpose -- either of business or amusement -- the citizen is at perfect liberty to carry his gun. It is the wicked purpose -- and the mischievous result -- which essentially constitute the crime. He shall not carry about this or any other weapon of death to terrify or alarm, and in such manner as naturally terrify and alarm, a peaceful people.
–North Carolina Supreme Court, concerning the North Carolina Constitution's right to keep and bear arms [1843]
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