Second Amendment Quotes - Page 9

• In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Fighting, Views, Important

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• Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Law, Two

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• The left looks at the Constitution and sees things that aren't there and then they find 'em. They look at things that are there and claim they're not there. Like the Second Amendment, nah, nah, it's not there, they really didn't intend that. No, no. Abortion. You can't find it, yeah, there it is, plain as day, see, it's right there in the 14th Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, the Fifth - no, it's not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Abortion, Looks, Ems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  New York, Mean, Thinking

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• The Google guys haven't even found a way to put abortion in the Constitution yet. Give 'em time. Give the Google guys time and abortion will show up in a keyword search of the Constitution. It's not there yet. Second Amendment is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, Abortion, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

  Joseph Sobran

  Rights, Government, Paper

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• The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Want

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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• President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

  Bill Shuster

  Marriage, Senior, Cutting

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• I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Thinking, People

  "Transcript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

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• When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  Want, Clinton, Amendments

  "CBS on Fact Checking Hillary: People Just Remember 'the Big Ones'" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. August 12, 2016.

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• I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Religious, Jobs

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, People, Trying

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Justice, Victory

  Source: time.com

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• I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Amendments, Supporter

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that I'm going to appoint will be pro-life. They will have a conservative bent. They will be protecting the Second Amendment. They are great scholars in all cases, and they're people of tremendous respect. They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted. And I believe that's very, very important.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Justice

  "Democracy Now! Special: Final Presidential Debate (10/19)". www.democracynow.org. October 19, 2016.

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• We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

  Donald Trump

  Siege, Amendments, Under Siege

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, People, Trying

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Justice, Way, Damage

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Firsts, First Amendment, Amendments

  Source: latinalista.com

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• To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Amendments, Position

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• The questions about Donald Trump temperament were raised - he suggested that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges that they disagreed with is that maybe the Second Amendment folks could handle it.

  Gwen Ifill

  Judging, Clinton, Temperament

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe if my opponent [Hillary Clinton] should win this race, which I truly don't think will happen, we will have a Second Amendment which will be a very, very small replica of what it is right now. But I feel that it's absolutely important that we uphold, because of the fact that it is under such trauma.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

  Donald Trump

  Justice, Lasts, Chance

  Source: time.com

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• I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antoine] Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Reading, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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