Illinois Legislation – Bills on the move

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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