Paul Broun Quotes

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

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

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

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

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

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 want people to have the right to bear arms.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

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.

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.

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

Guns are part of the American identity.

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

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

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.