ISRA Statement on the Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump

July 15, 2024

ISRA Statement on the
Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump

“The Illinois State Rifle Association in the strongest of terms, does not condone any act of violence, whether it is political or non-political – and Saturday’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump should never be a solution to addressing our political differences.

We are grateful that President Trump is safe and on the road to recovery, and we applaud the U.S. Secret Service who bravely rushed the stage and selflessly put their own lives in danger to protect him.

Our thoughts and prayers remain with the family of Corey Comperatore, a firefighter, who died while trying to protect his family from gunfire while attending the rally. We’re also thinking of the other victims and their families and wishing them a full recovery.

As an organization, we remain committed to protecting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens regardless of political affiliation, and dedicated to teaching firearm safety and training. The right to “keep and bear arms” extends to every American – and not just a select few. And while we share differences in opinion with our opponents on the other side, we must remember that at the end of the day, we are all Americans living in the greatest country on earth.”

Richard Pearson
Executive Director, Illinois State Rifle Association

Doug Mayhall
President, Illinois State Rifle Association

“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”

Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”

Tpr. M. Padgett

“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”

Lori Broadhead

“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

Ted Nugent

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”

Alan Dershowitz

“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”

Sen. Larry Craig

“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”

ISRA Statement on the Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump

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