Just gotta love these high faluting idiots who do not understand the Constitution of the USA. I may not need one NOW, but I sure will NEED one soon the way these socialists are trying to make me a serf.

What they don´t need is this much government.

Dear Mr. Panetta, How many Americans are you willing to murder at the hand of federal "law" enforcement in order to implement your gun-control plan? How much blood are you willing to spill?

Mr. Panetta,

By what means would you confront an irresponsible tyranny? By what manner do you conclude that our bureaucrats and politicians possess more angelic mercies than those of the Weimar Republic?

I fear that we have completely failed in that so many of our citizenry are willing to surrender their rights for the promise of pottage.

Free people do need them in order to remain free from the likes of Obama. Its the Sheeple that voted for Obama that do not need them.

I suppose the GOVERNMENT knows what we "NEED" and what we don´t "NEED" better than WE?

We don´t need 5 bathrooms, don´t need a $75,000 automobile, don´t need 4 vehicles, don´t need to eat steak, don´t need a 5000 square foot home, don´t need a three 55" televisions, home theater, a 50 acre farm, 30 pairs of shoes, a $100 hair cut...

The list goes on and on and these hypocrites don´t have a clue what they are saying, which shows just how stupid they are.
This is AMERICA and if I want to spend my money, the money I EARN, on whatever hobby or interest I have, that’s my business NOT YOURS. And if I want to buy 3000 rounds of ammo or another "assault" (whatever that is) rifle, who the hell are you to tell me I can´t??!!

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I double checked just to make sure, but it´s like I thought - the word "need" does not appear in the Second Amendment.

People also don´t need Leon Panetta.

Who is he to determine what any citizen´s needs are?

This from the stooge who said he did not send help to Benghazi because ´they don´t send people into harm´s way´.

He needs to shut up and go away.

But then we´ll have Hagel the hater in his place.

G-d help this country.

Repeat after me: "It is not a "Bill of NEEDS".

There is no such thing as an assault weapon, Mr Panetta. It´s a made-up word to describe a rifle that´s scary looking to you and other dimbulbs.

What we don´t need is your idiotic opinion or a meddlesome government looking into what I need or not need, Thank You very much Sir.

The Second Amendment preserves the American citizenry´s right to arm itself in protection against a government gone bad. Panetta´s ignorant statement is akin to stating that the American colonists didn´t "need" flintlocks. They could protect themselves against burglars with their axes, and hunted game with bows and arrows. Of course, neither would have done them much good against the well trained and flintlock-equipped British soldiers, or their Prussian mercenaries.

No, "assault weapons" are indeed needed by 21st Century American citizens so that we might proetect ourselves against whatever modern military force might seek to enslave us. Fully automatic rifles would be even better, and once we have batted back the assault on semi-autos with effective magazine capacities we should launch our own effort to decriminalize them. LEGAL full-auto retrofits for everyone.

Again, a tyrant cannot launch a kristallnacht against shopkeepers who are ARMED.

My list of people whose departure from public life will make the world a better place grows longer everyday. Today Mr. Panetta joined its ranks. I hope that he will soon decide to play golf everyday in lieu of spending his time telling other people how they should live.

Don´t need 100 Senators either. 50 will do.

Don´t need Czars - cabinet members will do.

Don´t need multiple shots. Ever met an angry Grizzly Bear?

With people like Panetta in government making statements like that, we most certainly do.

Many of the people who own and drive them don´t need big four-wheel drive trucks either. Your neighbor doesn´t need that bass-boat in his drive... in fact, none of the people who have big yachts or boats of any kind or size don´t NEED them. We, as human beings don´t need MOST of what we have. I guess we should all live like Zero´s brother in Africa - just enough to eat, mud hut and all.

NEED has very little to do with modern human existence. Does Zero and the First Mizz NEED to go on expensive vacations?

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

My 30-30 lever action can act pretty well as an assault weapon; just ask some Native Americans in the late 1800´s.

But, then again, so can a cross-bow.

It is not the business of elected and appointed representatives of the American people to tell them, the American people, what they do or do not need. Mr. Panetta has overstepped himself. He does not remember who he is working for, who pays his salary, and to whom he is ultimately accountable. If this is a representative sample of how Mr. Panetta thinks about his duties and delegated powers, it would be more accurate to say that Americans do not need Mr. Panetta than for him to proclaim that Americans do not need a certain type of firearm or, indeed, anything else. Who is Leon Panetta that he should be telling Americans what they do and do not need?

Define assault weapons!

"People don´t need assault weapons"

We also don´t need you or anyone else telling us what we need. We tell you what we need, not the other way around. We elected Emperor Zippy, God help us, and he appointed you. And by the way, is that what you told the defenders in Benghazi when they asked for assistance?

Rosa Parks didn´t "need" to move from the back of the bus, either.

The "don´t need" meme is the Left´s justification for confiscating something from the American people. How many times has Obama said that successful people "don´t need" all that money they earned?

Hey Leon, my rights do not end where you think my needs begin.

Stolen from another poster, hope they don´t mind.

The Second Amendment and what is a militia..

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason, Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

Look Leon...WE the People ARE Soldiers. Its not that we don´t NEED them...BUT...Its very much is that WE have the RIGHT to HOLD & BEAR ARMS....and that these rights SHALL NOT be infringed upon like what your boss in the people White House is doing. MOLON LABE

This Panetta twit is from Cal. Does he really think the farmers and cattlemen along the Mexico border don´t need assault weapons. If the illegals storming across the border ever found out the ranchers were limited in firepower they would kill every one of them.

Then how come Secret Service has assault weapons? How come police have assault weapons? Why is it that those in government need protection by people who carry assault weapons and the average citizen is told they don´t need and the second amendment is so outdated.

Perhaps this Leftist stooge would like to define "assault Weapons" for us?

I guess not...

Mr. Panetta, your saying that we don´t need them is proof that we, in fact, do need them.

It is the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.
Panetta just takes his marching orders from Obama, like the rest of them.
I´m beginning to wonder if we NEED a bloated government that is spending us into poverty. Frankly, I believe the gov´t is broken and needs to be thrown out and started all over again.

One HUGE problem Leon...the 2nd ammendment was not put there for hunting rifles as you lib morons keep lying about. It was put there pricisely to allow citizens to protect themselves from a Despotic Government...in other words, citizens should be armed precisely the same as the government goons!

If he says we don´t, we do. No question about it.

Who is he to decide for us.

Panetta, drive a cab for a week. Live in the wrong part of town for a month. Live out of sight of a neighbor in the southwest. Mostly I need an assault weapon because someone in this administration armed a bunch of hard case Mexican drug dealers with them. Joe, ask around and out THOSE people instead of telling us what we ´need.´

As Panetta won´t honor his oath to defend the Constitution, impeach him.

And BTW -- even if we each had an Abrams tank in the driveway, if the gov´t didn´t come after us, they´d never be used. See the problem with "need" and the point of the 2nd Amendment, Leon, you stinking [pre-deleted]?

#1: They understand it fine. But they also "know" it´s "wrong."

I don´t need Panetta.
Who is this American-hater to tell us what we need?

What is the deal with the ´armor-piercing bullets´ mention in every statement?

I know they´re trying to prop up a straw-man argument by including that, but the public isn´t allowed to purchase ammunition that is classified by the ATF as ´armor-piercing´ anyway.

The Obama Administration - supports the armed uprising of the Syrian people against a dictator...

Yet wonders why civilians should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons.

People don´t ´´need´´ Porshe´s or BMW´s, when a Ford Fiesta will get them where they are going just fine. And I guarantee that Porshe´s and BMW´s have killed many more people than my guns ever have (since they haven´t killed anyone).

I don´t ´´need´´ to sit here and express my opinions on any number of matters, but the 1st amendment guarnatees me the RIGHT to do so.

The 2nd amendment doesn´t have the word ´´need´´ in it anywhere. I don´t need a lot of things, but I have my guns for the reasons I have chosen to have my guns -- which is my RIGHT!!!

Demon-RATS are stupid and evil. That has to be the reason for the things that they keep saying over and over and over again...

The DipTwit Party spokes-loser errs again.

You and Hagel can have a personal contest.
Which makes a worse Defense Secretary?

Close call, so far.

And nobody needs an automobile that can do more than 80 mph. That´s as fast as anybody ´needs´ to go. Put a governor on all vehicles and you would probably saves thousands of lives. What is it that the libs say?, ´If it only saves one life´....

Nobody "Needs" to hear what YOU have to say..except about Bengahzi, Morsi, and those things that are actually IN your job description. Do YOUR Job.

Val Jar a non-elected person, doesn´t need a security detail either, but she has one.
So, what´s your point ?

A right is not justified by a need.