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

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

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

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

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

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