Second Amendment Quotations

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

Gun registration is not enough.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an “equalizer.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.

There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists to the court, I'm the only candidate with that record. That's why conservatives are uniting behind our campaign. And if they want to continue with the attacks, that's their prerogative.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights...

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor. ...

Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ...

Donald Trump is a staunch believer in the Second Amendment.

I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

We are going to appoint justices ­­ this is the best way to help the Second Amendment. We are going to appoint justices that will feel very strongly about the Second Amendment, that will not do damage to the Second Amendment.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I am ­­ I don't know if Hillary was saying it in a sarcastic manner, but I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA. And it's the earliest endorsement they've ever given to anybody who ran for president. So I'm very honored by all of that.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

A free people ought...to be armed

The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.