The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.
Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,. . . The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
We are going to appoint justices this is the best way to help the Second Amendment. We are going to appoint justices that will feel very strongly about the Second Amendment, that will not do damage to the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment is not really a right.
And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I am I don't know if Hillary was saying it in a sarcastic manner, but I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA. And it's the earliest endorsement they've ever given to anybody who ran for president. So I'm very honored by all of that.
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.
I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.
