When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

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

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.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

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.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.