We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

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

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?

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

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.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.