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

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

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

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

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

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