Amendment Quotes · Page 13

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

— Alan Dershowitz

Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

— Dianne Feinstein

“The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.”

— Arturo Perez-Reverte

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

— Roy Barnes

If you watch some movies, it would appear that India has free gun license like the U.S.

— Victor Banerjee

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

— Mitt Romney

Just like President Obama, Hillary Clinton does in fact want to take away your guns.

— Katie Pavlich

It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

— Rush Limbaugh

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Sharron Angle

We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

— Elisabeth Marbury

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have…

— Hillary Clinton

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

— Larry Craig

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South…

— John Thune

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry…

— Jonathan Haidt

I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of…

— Ken Buck

That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those…

— Peter van Uhm

Ultimately, the NRA has maybe five million members. We are a nation of 320 million-plus, and it's time we call out those…

— Bob Menendez

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point…

— Jim Jordan

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball…

— David Letterman

“More plausibly, the ideologues expected that the guns would end up tied to various atrocities, thus bolstering their political argument that America’s…

— Andrew McCarthy

Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only…

— Hugo Black

Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun…

— David Icke

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since…

— Jeff Cooper

“He, Jeff, and Troy Lee carried Super Soakers loaded with Grandma Lee's Vampire Cat Remedy, other Animals had garden sprayers slung on…

— Christopher Moore

It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations…

— Katie Pavlich

We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only…

— Clara Jeffery

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

— Wayne LaPierre

There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry.

— Kenneth W. Royce

People have a right to be able to bear arms.

— Mitt Romney

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

— David Hogg

I am a firm supporter of the First Amendment, no matter the views expressed.

— Ted Wheeler

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted.

— Steve Stockman

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

— Stevie Wonder