Luke Scott Quotes

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation like the tragedy and the murderous rage in San Bernardino and you're in a room like that, would you want somebody that knew how to use a firearm and had one with them, or if somebody breaks into your house, what are you going to do if they are armed and you are not? And there's not a good answer. There's no good answer except you're a sitting duck for the most part if you're not armed.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

The great object is that every man be armed.

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

Every People should have, within themselves, all the Means of Self Defense.

SELF-PROTECTORS TO TRAVELLERS AND PLANTERS: For travellers, housekeepers, captaias, planters, and others, they are an indispensable article, as persons, both male and female, can with this pistol protect their lives or property if attacked by many persons.

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

People do have a right to protect themselves, and they are not protected by the justice system.

Wee see even in well-governed States, where there are lawes and punishments appointed for offendors, yet particular men travell not without their Sword by their sides, for their defences, neither sleep they without shutting not only their doores against their fellow Subjects, but also their Trunks and Coffers for feare of domestiques. Can men give a clearer testimony of the distrust they have each of other, and all, of all?

The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.

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.

People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?

We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a God-given right. We are proud to exercise that right, are not ashamed of it and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration as lawful gun owners.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

I am learning self-defense techniques.

It's not smart to get caught without a gun.

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.

Ain't nobody ever seen a picture of me with no gun. I have my guns for safety.

The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.