Jeff Duncan Quotes

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

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.

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 have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

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.

The great object is that every man be armed.

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 bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State

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, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

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.

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 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.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is 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.

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.