Erwin N. Griswold Quotes

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun.

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

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

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.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the 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.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

This Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed.

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.

I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.

I was literally sued - drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby - all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn't shoot guns in city parks.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

It is absolutely absurd that someone who is deemed unsafe to get on an airplane is allowed to buy a gun in America. It's truly absurd.

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety measures would assist us.