Ted Yoho Quotes

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

I'm a 'big' who just knows how to shoot.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.

I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.

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?

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

… when I motored and was driving my own car by myself, …the Secret Service had asked me to carry a pistol and … I did it and had learned how to use it!

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

I've been shooting all my life.

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

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.

I have never been a shooter.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

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.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.