Louise Slaughter Quotes

Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.

…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.

Obama and his me-too Senate majority led by Nevada's Harry Reid and New York's Chuck Schumer - given the chance - would indeed wipe out our tradition of the right to keep and bear arms, and with it our right to self-protection in a dangerous world.

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

A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

History has proven again the truth that President Obama and anti-freedom activists everywhere deny and try to suppress - the truth that firearms in the hands of good people save lives.

I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

If President Obama had his way, the United States would be just like Britain and Australia, where handguns were confiscated and remain banned with little to show for it. Thankfully, the Second Amendment and the American people will not stand for it.

I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

I take gun rights very personally.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.