“These killings were terrible. They were horrible. I’m reminded, though that, you know, America is a big country. We’re free and one of the prices we pay for that freedom is that you’re always going to have some people who abuse it. Freedom is risk. What we have got to concentrate on is how to control that risk. You’re not going to stop the killings until you stop the killers. But you don’t stop drunk drivers by getting rid of all sober drivers, which is what many of my Democratic friends want to do with respect to the Second Amendment.”

– Sen. John Kennedy