The Essential Second Amendment Guide Quotes

“I feel that the defense of democracy is on my doorstep and your doorstep as well as on the world’s battlefields. . .. I rebel against the destruction of freedom in America under the guise of emergency.”
― Wayne LaPierre, The Essential Second Amendment Guide

“Communists in every country that has been overthrown has been to disarm the populace, take away their firearms with which to defend themselves, in order to overthrow the Government.” Representative Paul Kilday of Texas argued the bill should forbid registration: [R]emember that registration of firearms is only the first step. It will be followed by other infringements of the right to keep and bear arms until finally the right is gone.”
― Wayne LaPierre, The Essential Second Amendment Guide

“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people…”
― Wayne LaPierre, The Essential Second Amendment Guide

“[W]hen the Constitution means “states” it says so.… The ultimate right to keep and bear arms belongs to “the people,” not the “states.”... Thus the “people” at the core of the Second Amendment [are] the same “We the People” who “ordain and establish” the Constitution and whose right to assemble ... [is] at the core of the First Amendment.... Nowadays, it is quite common to speak loosely of the National Guard as “the state militia,” but [when the Second Amendment was written]... “the militia” referred to all Citizens capable of bearing arms. [So] “the militia” is identical to “the people”....”
― Wayne LaPierre, The Essential Second Amendment Guide

“It was Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention on the ratification of the Constitution who articulated the necessity of guarding the rights of an armed citizenry: Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.”
― Wayne LaPierre, The Essential Second Amendment Guide