American Civil Liberties Union Quotes

If the ACLU took the same position on the 2nd Amendment that it does on the 1st Amendment and other non-enumerated rights, then every citizen would be required to carry a gun.

The 2nd Amendment is the teeth of the Bill of Rights, and assault rifles are the teeth of the 2nd Amendment.

No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This is not for someone who's in the military. This 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. This [gun control] is for us when our government becomes tyrannical...

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

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.

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

The great object is that every man be armed.

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

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

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

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.

…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

The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right?

It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

I own guns, and no one's taking 'em away.

I am a strong supporter and proponent of the Second Amendment. Always have been.

The threshold question in a Second Amendment challenge is one of scope: whether the Second Amendment protects the person, the weapon, or the activity in the first place.

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

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.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.