No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

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