Peter Bergen Quotes

The people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

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 Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

The great object is that every man be armed.

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

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

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

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..

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

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

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.

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.

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.

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.'

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

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!

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

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 the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

Let's remember, the Second Amendment has been around for over 200 years.