Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.