Vermont Quotes

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

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

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

The great object is that every man be armed.

I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

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

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

As long as there have been guns in America there have been regulations governing their use and storage. Without government direction there would have been no body of Minutemen to muster on the town greens at Lexington and Concord. If the Founders had imbibed the strong gun rights ideology that drives today's gun debate we would all be drinking tea and singing, "God save our gracious Queen.

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.

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

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

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

…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've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.

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

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

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

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.