Tom Rice: “We know we are not going to have these 100-percent funding levels. We know that.”

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

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.

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.

We have to realize we have to get a majority, right? We have to reach consensus.