Rick Perry Quotes

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

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.

I'm a gun owner.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

Guns are our friends, because in a world without guns I'm what as known as prey. Almost all females are.

You have a right to possess in your home and in your business a rifle, a pistol, and King George can't take it away from you, or Uncle Sam either.

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.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.