Jesse Ventura Quotes

I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that is shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns.

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.

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

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 don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

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.

Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

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

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

I'm not a sixth grader. Senator, I've been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in, I saw people shot. I've looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons. I've seen the bullets that implode. In Sandy Hook, youngsters were dismembered…. You know, it's fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I've been here for a long time. I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated, and I thank you for the lecture.

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.

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

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

We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

If you're too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you're too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment - I support the Second Amendment - but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.

I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws - some meaningful, some unproductive - the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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