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

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

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.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

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?

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.