Jonathan Haidt Quotes

There's no way I'm not gonna have a gun, 'cause you just never know what'll go down in Atlanta. But I'd rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I'm just trying to protect myself.

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

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

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.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I'm a gun owner.

It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

…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

An armed society is a polite society.

These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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 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.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.