Henry Rollins Quotes

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

If Americans have to live with the danger of guns because of the 2nd Amendment, then they'll also have to live with the dangers of publications such as Inspire Magazine because of the 1st Amendment.

They’re infringing on my 2nd Amendment rights so why can’t I interfere with their 1st Amendment privileges.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along, and if they could determine what words you can and cannot say, where and where you can't say them. The Constitution is there to protect you from mayors like Mike Doomberg who wants to tell you how big your beverage can be.

Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

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

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

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

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.

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 conservatives want to use the 2nd Amendment to shoot the 1st Amendment.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

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

I've been a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I'm going to continue to do that.

Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.

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

I am a strong supporter and proponent of the Second Amendment. Always have been.

Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.