L. Neil Smith Quotes

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

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

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

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

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

History has proven again the truth that President Obama and anti-freedom activists everywhere deny and try to suppress - the truth that firearms in the hands of good people save lives.

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.

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

I take gun rights very personally.

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

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

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

I'm a gun owner.

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.

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.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes.