The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.