Sherwood Boehlert Quotes

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.

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

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.

The Union agrees with the Supreme Court's long standing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that the individual's right to keep and bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a "well-regulated militia." Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected.

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.

Registering a gun is like registering to exercise the right of free speech.

No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

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

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

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

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

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.

The great object is that every man be armed.

This Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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

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

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The 2nd Amendment is the teeth of the Bill of Rights, and assault rifles are the teeth of the 2nd Amendment.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.

Libertarians and most conservatives boldly and nobly take a stand for our right to keep and bear arms. Not so we can go duck hunting, but so we can defend ourselves and our families from invasion. And so we can, if necessary, defend our liberty from the possibility of a tyrannical state.

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.