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.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

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.

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

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

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.