How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.