John McCain Quotes

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

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

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

I want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don't want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn't mean that you can't own a gun.

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No matter who you appoint to the court, you're not taking my guns," is all it means, pure and simple. If everybody could just take a breath here and let's get back to who's really doing damage to our country.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

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

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 am all for controlling guns.

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

The 2nd Amendment protects the right of the people to bear arms. That doesn't mean that they should be able to bear any arms, at any time, under any circumstances.

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.

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was not meant to make efficient killing machines out of drug dealers and other criminals.

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

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.

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

Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.