Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.” ~ Sanford Levinson (1941- ) University of Texas law professorSource: The Embarrassing Second Amendment, 99 YALE L.J. 637, 656 (1989).