Tom Rice: “We desperately need jobs. We desperately need industry.”

What glares at you when you read this opinion is about a big omission in the background-check procedure.

This is a very commonsense solution that would have prevented most of these massacres.

Too often when we see tragedies like this, in our immediate reaction, we try to go too far, and we can't find a solution that we can get across the line.

After the killings of the nine people in the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a deranged individual, the families of the deceased sued the Federal Government for failure to catch his issues before they issued him a…