Katie Pavlich Quotes

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.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

I’m the NRA.

As an avid hunter, outdoor enthusiast, and life member of the NRA, I understand the importance of protecting the right to keep and bear arms.

I'm a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I've owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

The NRA isn't a boogeyman organization behind a curtain. The NRA is made up of millions of people who believe in the Second Amendment and the organization is very closely connected to the country music community.

I have never been a shooter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

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

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.