Tom Fitton Quotes

If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

Today's uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics.

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

If in the script there is an argument about gun control, the most precious document you could produce at 'The West Wing' that week is a passionate, intelligent case against gun control. We know how to do the other one.

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

It was in the nineties. [Bill] Clinton was president. And Clinton was making, you know, the usual Democrat move on guns after some of event, and Wayne LaPierre said, "I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence."

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.

Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

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

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

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

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.