Tom Rice: “And now we are going to pile more regulation on these businesses, and we are going to smother that very opportunity.”

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.

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.

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.