Guns In America Quotes

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns
in America’s schools, period … with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se
curity personnel.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who’s on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you’re too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

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.

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

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.