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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.