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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. -- Robin Williams
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. -- Jesse Ventura
We're a heart attack away from losing the right to bear arms. -- Jeff Foxworthy
A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms. -- Samuel Ray Cummings
Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms. -- Curt Weldon
In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany. -- Glenn Beck
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! -- Robin Williams
Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys. -- Bruce Willis
We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. -- Vince Vaughn
What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school? -- Piers Morgan
I want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don't want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn't mean that you can't own a gun. -- Kimberly Guilfoyle
Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police. -- Ice T
Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.' -- Laurence Silberman
I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power. -- Ted Turner
[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding. -- Robert Bork
The right to bear arms? What about the right to live? -- Stevie Wonder
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. -- Ice T
I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms. -- Rudy Giuliani
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. -- Al Sharpton
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With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases. -- Ronald Reagan
I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have. -- Jim Jarmusch
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house. -- Bill Engvall
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. -- Hillary Clinton
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way. -- Jeff Miller
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage. -- Gabrielle Giffords
A free people ought...to be armed -- George Washington
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. -- Benjamin Franklin
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. -- James Madison
My view is that we have the Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and in this country my view is that we should not add new legistlation. I do not believe in new laws restricting gun ownership and gun use. -- Mitt Romney
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies. -- George Washington
The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government. -- Glenn Reynolds
Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan. -- Big Boi
I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars. We have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting, it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech, -- Vince Vaughn
People have a right to be able to bear arms. -- Mitt Romney
I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms. -- Mel Martinez
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). -- Abraham Lincoln
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. -- Bob Barr
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. -- Sharron Angle
The people have a right to keep and bear arms. -- Patrick Henry
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned. -- James Madison
However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms. -- Mike Pence
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ... -- Joseph Story
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period. -- Donald Trump
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 -- Sharron Angle
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right. -- Samuel Ray Cummings

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