Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.