Quotes by Second Amendment That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience. John Adams second-amendment gun rights The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. John Adams second-amendment support law If were going to change the laws, lets 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. John Dingell second-amendment rights law Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church. John Fugelsang second-amendment church jesus I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else. John Locke second-amendment liberty reason The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation. John Longenecker overall-health second-amendment amendments 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 second-amendment liberty gun The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical. Joseph Sobran second-amendment government rights It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. Jonathan Safran Foer second-amendment gun trying There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement. Joy-Ann Reid second-amendment gun running Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. L. Neil Smith second-amendment gun people The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do? Louise Slaughter second-amendment gun people Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. Marcus Tullius Cicero second-amendment gun rights Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France. Mark Twight second-amendment rights exercise The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting. Massad Ayoob second-amendment hunting ducks Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Melissa Harris-Perry second-amendment president rights I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot. Michael Nutter second-amendment firsts thinking The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. Niccolo Machiavelli unarmed second-amendment men The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms. Pat Buchanan second-amendment arms fields Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Patrick Henry second-amendment aggravation gun «12345»
