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In the State of Florida, government bureaucracy will no longer stand between law-abiding Floridians and their freedom to exercise their Second Amendment rights, this bill recognizes that while the government has a duty to protect its citizens, its citizens have a right to protect themselves. – Chuck Brannan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m proud to support law-abiding gun owners across America with this commonsense legislation that would let them concealed carry in all states that allow it. – John Cornyn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The constitutional right of self-defense should not disappear simply because an individual crosses state lines, i’m pleased to join my Senate colleagues in this commonsense legislation to ensure that law-abiding Tennesseans who are permitted to carry a concealed firearm are able to exercise that right in other states, consistent with those states’ laws, without having to obtain a separate permit. – Bill Hagerty	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a clear indication from the court that the General Assembly and Governor Pritzker rammed this law through improperly. The ISRA firmly believes the law is an infringement on all law-abiding residents’ 2nd Amendment rights. – Illinois State Rifle Association	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I want extra assurances that law abiding purchasers across the country will not be discriminated against using this merchant code as a means to an end. – Kevin Cramer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re thrilled to celebrate a victory for Rosa today, but it is deeply regrettable that this law-abiding woman was subjected to distressing, drawn-out criminal proceedings in the first place, no doubt due to her pro-life stance, this follows a worrying trend in law enforcement where individuals are routinely arrested simply because their views are considered to be controversial or offensive. – Jeremiah Igunnubole	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Bryan Valdez-Espinosa sincerely regrets Bryan Valdez-Espinosa criminal acts and I'm confident Bryan Valdez-Espinosa will live a law abiding life after serving what will likely be a lengthy sentence in a federal detention facility. – Melissa Larsen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime. – John Lott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The vast majority of those involved were peaceful and law-abiding, however, a much smaller group of individuals took to the streets with the intention of creating chaos and destruction. – The LAPD	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Decades of Right-to-Carry laws all across America have proven that good men and women are not the problem, this ruling will bring life-saving justice to law-abiding Americans who have lived under unconstitutional restrictions all across our country, particularly in cities and states with revolving door criminal justice systems, no cash bail and increased opposition to law-enforcement. – Wayne LaPierre	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's based around children. It's based around prevention and intervention. That's what it's based about. So we have to take what we have as a positive, and work off of this. This piece of legislation as drafted should not be threatening to any law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Not one. – Joe Manchin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They don't reflect the views of law-abiding gun owners. That's the problem, they reflect a viewpoint that's largely held in urban corridors where gun ownership is taboo… And so I think what we have really found in this whole scenario is the media does a terrible job actually covering it, because their worldview with respect to gun ownership is not ‘in the mainstream.’. – Byron Donalds	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Virtually every one that I've seen here has been one that sweep up law-abiding gun owners into what I consider to be an overreach. – Thom Tillis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Unlike states who are doing everything in their power to make it harder for law abiding citizens, Alabama is reaffirming our commitment to defending our Second Amendment rights, i have always stood up for the rights of law abiding gunowners, and I am proud to do that again today. – Kay Ivey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We’re law-abiding ; we worry about our safety ; we worry about our economy ; we love our country, and everything Democratic Party stands for is contrary to Democratic Party. – Aaron Peña	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She, among so many others have no business being in politics, people are starting to see through the nonsense and people are going to start coming and running races and going for her and other seats, to start bringing back common sense and law enforcement, and law-abiding citizenship. She is just going to keep on going and spin her words, and people are going to look and say, ‘ We can not have this. We can not have this anymore. ’. – Joe Imperatrice	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's really sad to see where the county is, but also at the same time, the constituency, the law-abiding citizens and the taxpayers are fed up. – Gregory Foster	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the Biden administration continues with its planned changes, ATF's registry eventually will include 100% of firearm transactions – sucking up every record since 2001, these plans for a national registry violate federal law, infringe on the Second Amendment, and put law-abiding gun owners on the path to total gun confiscation. – Aidan Johnston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for parole, when the book is written on Andrew Cuomo, apart from leaving office in disgrace, his legacy will be a New York that has released unrepentant cop killers, child rapists, murderers, and terrorists. My only hope is that when all is said and done, the final chapter finds him in a jail cell. – Mike Lawler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[T]hese Marxist BLM members … get a health care pass too, they don't mean that everybody should be vaccinated, they just mean that law-abiding American citizens better do what they tell us to do or you are going to be cut off from the rest of society. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we’re talking about here are magazines that are commonly possessed all throughout the country, are legal in 41 out of the 50 states, they are possessed for law-abiding purposes like self-defense and there’s no historical tradition in this country of having the sort of restrictions the state has in mind here of telling people there’s a certain amount of firepower or capacity that's appropriate for them to possess. – Erin Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Gun control advocates and Democrats will fight you tooth and nail, they want to go and say' We've stopped 3.5 million dangerous people.' I look at it as we've stopped 3.5 million law abiding citizens who wanted to get a gun. – John Lott	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Without that, various communities could sponsor their own laws governing firearms acquisition, sales, use and storage, and all of that. And law-abiding citizens from other parts of the state would be breaking the law just by passing through some of these communities, that's why no other city has successfully done what the mayor is proposing to do. – Sam Paredes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are certain points on which the industry can partner with NAAGA and other groups where we can talk about the ability of law-abiding Americans, regardless of skin color, to exercise their Second Amendment rights. – Mark Oliva	Found on CNN 2 years ago

In the State of Florida, government bureaucracy will no longer stand between law-abiding Floridians and their freedom to exercise their Second Amendment rights, this bill recognizes that while the government has a duty to protect its citizens, its citizens have a right to protect themselves.

– Chuck Brannan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m proud to support law-abiding gun owners across America with this commonsense legislation that would let them concealed carry in all states that allow it.

– John Cornyn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The constitutional right of self-defense should not disappear simply because an individual crosses state lines, i’m pleased to join my Senate colleagues in this commonsense legislation to ensure that law-abiding Tennesseans who are permitted to carry a concealed firearm are able to exercise that right in other states, consistent with those states’ laws, without having to obtain a separate permit.

– Bill Hagerty

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a clear indication from the court that the General Assembly and Governor Pritzker rammed this law through improperly. The ISRA firmly believes the law is an infringement on all law-abiding residents’ 2nd Amendment rights.

– Illinois State Rifle Association

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I want extra assurances that law abiding purchasers across the country will not be discriminated against using this merchant code as a means to an end.

– Kevin Cramer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re thrilled to celebrate a victory for Rosa today, but it is deeply regrettable that this law-abiding woman was subjected to distressing, drawn-out criminal proceedings in the first place, no doubt due to her pro-life stance, this follows a worrying trend in law enforcement where individuals are routinely arrested simply because their views are considered to be controversial or offensive.

– Jeremiah Igunnubole

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Bryan Valdez-Espinosa sincerely regrets Bryan Valdez-Espinosa criminal acts and I'm confident Bryan Valdez-Espinosa will live a law abiding life after serving what will likely be a lengthy sentence in a federal detention facility.

– Melissa Larsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The vast majority of those involved were peaceful and law-abiding, however, a much smaller group of individuals took to the streets with the intention of creating chaos and destruction.

– The LAPD

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Decades of Right-to-Carry laws all across America have proven that good men and women are not the problem, this ruling will bring life-saving justice to law-abiding Americans who have lived under unconstitutional restrictions all across our country, particularly in cities and states with revolving door criminal justice systems, no cash bail and increased opposition to law-enforcement.

– Wayne LaPierre

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's based around children. It's based around prevention and intervention. That's what it's based about. So we have to take what we have as a positive, and work off of this. This piece of legislation as drafted should not be threatening to any law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Not one.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They don't reflect the views of law-abiding gun owners. That's the problem, they reflect a viewpoint that's largely held in urban corridors where gun ownership is taboo… And so I think what we have really found in this whole scenario is the media does a terrible job actually covering it, because their worldview with respect to gun ownership is not ‘in the mainstream.’.

– Byron Donalds

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Virtually every one that I've seen here has been one that sweep up law-abiding gun owners into what I consider to be an overreach.

– Thom Tillis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unlike states who are doing everything in their power to make it harder for law abiding citizens, Alabama is reaffirming our commitment to defending our Second Amendment rights, i have always stood up for the rights of law abiding gunowners, and I am proud to do that again today.

– Kay Ivey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re law-abiding ; we worry about our safety ; we worry about our economy ; we love our country, and everything Democratic Party stands for is contrary to Democratic Party.

– Aaron Peña

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She, among so many others have no business being in politics, people are starting to see through the nonsense and people are going to start coming and running races and going for her and other seats, to start bringing back common sense and law enforcement, and law-abiding citizenship. She is just going to keep on going and spin her words, and people are going to look and say, ‘ We can not have this. We can not have this anymore. ’.

– Joe Imperatrice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's really sad to see where the county is, but also at the same time, the constituency, the law-abiding citizens and the taxpayers are fed up.

– Gregory Foster

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the Biden administration continues with its planned changes, ATF's registry eventually will include 100% of firearm transactions – sucking up every record since 2001, these plans for a national registry violate federal law, infringe on the Second Amendment, and put law-abiding gun owners on the path to total gun confiscation.

– Aidan Johnston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for parole, when the book is written on Andrew Cuomo, apart from leaving office in disgrace, his legacy will be a New York that has released unrepentant cop killers, child rapists, murderers, and terrorists. My only hope is that when all is said and done, the final chapter finds him in a jail cell.

– Mike Lawler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[T]hese Marxist BLM members … get a health care pass too, they don't mean that everybody should be vaccinated, they just mean that law-abiding American citizens better do what they tell us to do or you are going to be cut off from the rest of society.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we’re talking about here are magazines that are commonly possessed all throughout the country, are legal in 41 out of the 50 states, they are possessed for law-abiding purposes like self-defense and there’s no historical tradition in this country of having the sort of restrictions the state has in mind here of telling people there’s a certain amount of firepower or capacity that's appropriate for them to possess.

– Erin Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gun control advocates and Democrats will fight you tooth and nail, they want to go and say' We've stopped 3.5 million dangerous people.' I look at it as we've stopped 3.5 million law abiding citizens who wanted to get a gun.

– John Lott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Without that, various communities could sponsor their own laws governing firearms acquisition, sales, use and storage, and all of that. And law-abiding citizens from other parts of the state would be breaking the law just by passing through some of these communities, that's why no other city has successfully done what the mayor is proposing to do.

– Sam Paredes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are certain points on which the industry can partner with NAAGA and other groups where we can talk about the ability of law-abiding Americans, regardless of skin color, to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

– Mark Oliva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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