Tom Rice: “As a nation we can no longer take the approach of simply maintaining our failing infrastructure.”

I think the reason that they only search two is because, when we did the background-check law in the mid-1990s, the N-DEx system did not exist.

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

I have made my opinions very well known. I know I did the right thing. I would do it again tomorrow. I don`t vote for the job. I vote to do the right thing. I don`t vote for a man. I vote to uphold the Constitution.

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.