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.

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

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

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.

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.

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