Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'
Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.
For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.
When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.
My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.
I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
We protect our banks, hospitals and airports with armed personnel; surely, we can do more to protect schools, which teach our nation's most valuable resource.
In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.
