Do you believe that rather than saving lives, the President's executive actions could result in more lives lost through the violation of a constitutionally guaranteed right to self-defense?

I do not believe they did. Did they?

How can the President and you, the Attorney General representing this administration, say he is committed to using every tool at the administration's disposal to reduce gun violence when his own administrator is not following through with…

The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is an individual right protected in the Bill of Rights that has been recognized by the Supreme Court.

In other words, I have these rights but I better be careful to exercise them.

Have you seen any administration in recent years or even in past years in the presidency that would look at part of our constitutional makeup and attack this amendment, the Bill of Rights, or attack this part of the Constitution like this…

the President's plan on gun control would require officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to begin contacting gun sellers to let them know of new standards

Let us not get involved in constitutional arguments, and let us help our American people be safe and secure in their home, their neighborhood, their school, and their house of worship.

We have a right to defend ourselves. Do we not?

I am concerned that the President is slowly, slowly chipping away at our Second Amendment rights.

But millions of Americans--millions--own guns. I, for one, have sold a gun and taken money to buy another gun, but I am not a gun dealer and so forth.

Do you think that this announcement by the President will have a chilling effect on citizens who merely want to exercise their constitutional rights?