Lyn Nofziger Quotes

The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

In an age where the government has tanks, rockets and missiles, it seems ludicrous to believe that citizen's having handguns are a protection against government power.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

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

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 right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible..

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

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.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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 advantage of being armed ... the Americans possess over the people of all other nations.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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

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.

If the ACLU took the same position on the 2nd Amendment that it does on the 1st Amendment and other non-enumerated rights, then every citizen would be required to carry a gun.