Cass Sunstein Quotes

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

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

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

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.

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

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

The 2nd Amendment protects the right of the people to bear arms. That doesn't mean that they should be able to bear any arms, at any time, under any circumstances.

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

Congress is in the grasp of the National Rifle Association and the religious right.

We are law-abiding citizens who have to leave their weapons in their car when they take their family our for a nice dinner … this is just a major inconvenience.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

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.

The real firearms argument is not a historical dispute about revolutionary America but a political one about 21st century America.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

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