Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

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

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

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?

Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?

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

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.