Ted Cruz Quotes

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

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

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

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.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed.

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.

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

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.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

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

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

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.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.

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.

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