Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Wayne LaPierre - Page 2

The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It's not some frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim. It lies at the heart of what this country was founded upon.

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at all.

If the U.N. gun-ban treaty is ever signed and ratified into law, we may never get a second chance to save the Second Amendment.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

If the U.S. refused to take part in the U.N.'s international gun registry, other nations could potentially ban their domestic firearm manufacturers from exporting firearms to the United States.

Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

I've been arguing with Dianne Feinstein for years.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a God-given right. We are proud to exercise that right, are not ashamed of it and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration as lawful gun owners.

Success in restoring and bolstering Second Amendment rights through aggressive legal challenges depends on you, your friends, family and colleagues.

People want to be able to protect themselves.

I think we need national carry reciprocity.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.

Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.

Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't there - or simply doesn't show up in time.

From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they're attacking your right to own a gun, they're enjoying armed security for themselves.

It shouldn't be just the rich and the powerful that send their children to schools where there is armed security. Parents shouldn't be holding their breath because there's no security in schools they're sending their children to.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

Once they ban rifles, they're gone forever.

Well, what every place needs is a security plan that protects it.

The ultimate goal of the gun ban 'scientific community' is to make the 'gun ownership is a disease' mantra into politically settled science.

There are only two reasons to compile list of gun owners: to tax them or to take them.

A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.

There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.

The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

The whole idea from some of our opponents that armed security makes us less safe is completely ridiculous. If that's true, armed security makes us less safe, let's just go ahead and remove it from everywhere.

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

Laws can't control the lawless.

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.