Thomas Hardiman Quotes

The Union agrees with the Supreme Court's long standing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that the individual's right to keep and bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a "well-regulated militia." Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The 2nd Amendment is the teeth of the Bill of Rights, and assault rifles are the teeth of the 2nd Amendment.

No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people.

An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject. Criminals love gun control – it makes their jobs safer. The American Revolution would never have happened with "gun control.

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

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

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.

I own guns, and no one's taking 'em away.

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

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

The great object is that every man be armed.

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.

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.

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

If there is no absolute right to freedom of speech, why must there be an absolute right to the freedom to bear arms.

If the ACLU took the same position on the 2nd Amendment that it does on the 1st Amendment and other non-enumerated rights, then every citizen would be required to carry a gun.

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible..