Chet Edwards Quotes

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

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

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

I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that is shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns.

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

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

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

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 right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

Gun Control? You control your gun, and I’ll control mine.

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.

[Referring to gun control:] You've got to protect your legitimate sportsman and hunter, but by God, you've got to protect your police officers too.

What better way to help health prevention than to ban all handguns.

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

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

We will never get anywhere in fighting the pistol until we convert public opinion to the belief that the revolver has no value as a weapon of defense.

Let’s not sacrifice the lives of our children to the 2nd Amendment

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

The real firearms argument is not a historical dispute about revolutionary America but a political one about 21st century America.

If you're too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you're too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment - I support the Second Amendment - but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

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.