Blase J. Cupich Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

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.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

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

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

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

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

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

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

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

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

The great object is that every man be armed.

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'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.