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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.