Amendment Quotes · Page 22

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

— Aaron Sorkin

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

— Emma Gonzalez

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We will protect the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms.

— Glenn Youngkin

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

— Anthony Lewis

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

— Rudy Giuliani

Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?

— Emo Philips

“Good grief. They're like the freaking poster family for the NRA.”

— Elisabeth Wheatley

Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.

— Katie Pavlich

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

— William O. Douglas

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension…

— Letitia James

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

— Mike Quigley

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this…

— Herb Kohl

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a…

— George Carlin

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the…

— Steve Stockman

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.

— Vladimir Lenin

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the…

— Bill McCollum

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns…

— Jerrold Nadler

I'm going to have my 40 and my AR.If you're in San Bernardino, and God forbid somebody's there - if I'm in…

— Sean Hannity

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way…

— Arthur Capper

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an…

— Pat Buchanan

No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring…

— Kevin de Leon

When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't…

— Brad Stine

There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation…

— Gavin Newsom

“The militia of which the Second Amendment speaks is not the National Guard, but the assembly of patriots who are willing to…

— Scottie Nell Hughes

I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic…

— Joycelyn Elders

Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic…

— Daniel D. Polsby

One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon…

— Donald Trump

The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on it. They hate the Second Amendment. They want to get rid…

— Rush Limbaugh

In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the…

— Jeff Cooper

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep…

— Harry Browne

I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that…

— Aryeh Neier

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

— Howard Metzenbaum

“Why ban guns? Let's give everyone rocket launchers! What could possibly go wrong?”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

— Patrick Leahy

You have a right to love firearms. And you also have a right to hate them.

— John Popper

We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

— Richard Shelby

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

— Jhonen Vasquez

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Robin Williams