Top 66 Second Amendment Quotes

For years, I’ve gone on television and made the case for the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms. I’ve pointed out that criminals don’t follow gun laws, and I’ve defended the NRA and its members – law-abiding gun owners like me who have nothing to do with mass shootings or violent gun crimes.

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right with a gun to protect themselves against a criminal.

I’m a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I’ve owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn’t that they are so distrustful of their government? They’re afraid they’ll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

I’m proud to stand up and defend against threats to our Second Amendment rights in Congress.

I am a strong supporter and proponent of the Second Amendment. Always have been.

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It’s not about taking guns away. It’s about doing very simple things that will save lives.

We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It’s more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

I support gun safety measures, and I’ll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

The Second Amendment reflects the brilliance of our founders, who knew that no right is guaranteed unless we are willing to fight for it, and I remain committed to fighting for the rights of lawful gun owners as the senator for Alabama.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.

I don’t understand why it’s controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment.

People feel very strongly about the Second Amendment. Their rights. And so if we can find, agree on, for example, that we should have responsible gun ownership just like we have responsible use of automobiles. Nobody wants someone getting behind the wheel that shouldn’t be there. And the same is true with guns.

The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.

Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage in character assassination, dismissing their opponents as sexists.

Walter Isaacson attracts the best and the brightest to Aspen. It is exhilarating to listen to the likes of David Rubenstein and constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen speak about George Washington and Newt Gingrich and the original intent of the Second Amendment.

I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

I’ve been a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I’m going to continue to do that.

Let’s create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.

I’m a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

For me personally, I’m anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I’m definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we’re definitely interpreting it wrong.

The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It’s not some frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim. It lies at the heart of what this country was founded upon.

A gun saved my life. That’s why I won’t let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

We’ve got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners’ ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.

This isn’t about grabbing people’s guns; this isn’t about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list – a dangerous terrorist – should not be able to purchase a gun.

The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.

We don’t want to repeal the Second Amendment.

If we’re going to change the laws, let’s 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.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Let’s remember, the Second Amendment has been around for over 200 years.

You can’t have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

The NRA isn’t a boogeyman organization behind a curtain. The NRA is made up of millions of people who believe in the Second Amendment and the organization is very closely connected to the country music community.

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn’t make it up, the Republican Party didn’t make it up. It’s in the Constitution. I think it’s just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

Success in restoring and bolstering Second Amendment rights through aggressive legal challenges depends on you, your friends, family and colleagues.

I am for the Second Amendment, but I am for common-sense gun legislation.

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let’s uphold the Second Amendment.

The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

I own guns because it’s my right, it’s my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it’s a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.

I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

If the U.N. gun-ban treaty is ever signed and ratified into law, we may never get a second chance to save the Second Amendment.

I stood up to Beto O’Rourke because no one else was doing it. I stood up for the liberties of Americans, and it became a national rally cry for our Second Amendment.