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.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

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.

Laws can't control the lawless.

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

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

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?