It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.