Bill Nelson Quotes

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

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.

I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.

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

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.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

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.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

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.

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

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.

I don’t think there is a Constitutional right for individuals to bear arms. But I’m against gun control. So there!

I’m the NRA.

Gun ownership. The Bill of Rights should be written according to what's appropriate now, not two centuries ago.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

For years, I've gone on television and made the case for the Second Amendment - the right to bear arms. I've pointed out that criminals don't follow gun laws, and I've defended the NRA and its members - law-abiding gun owners like me who have nothing to do with mass shootings or violent gun crimes.

I own guns because it's my right, it's my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it's a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.

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 support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

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

Guns are part of the American identity.