Paul Broun Quotes

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.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

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.

They’re infringing on my 2nd Amendment rights so why can’t I interfere with their 1st Amendment privileges.

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was not meant to make efficient killing machines out of drug dealers and other criminals.

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.

The 2nd Amendment was for protecting the people from the government.

The conservatives want to use the 2nd Amendment to shoot the 1st Amendment.

We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

Our fight isn't just about the Second Amendment, it's about preserving all our liberties - saving our constitutional heritage and protections for the future.

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

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.

I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.

The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment.

As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

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

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

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