“I just read the You Said It column about the person who said people rushed out to buy guns because of the election, and said it was irrational and somebody was going to get hurt. Only the burglars who try to break in on you and do harm to you are going to get hurt — and that’s a good thing. That’s why people buy the guns because they thought the president is going to take everybody’s guns away from them.”

“What do Republicans do while they’re in Washington? Play tiddlywinks? They don’t agree with anything the president wants to do or comes up with. We ought to send them home for a year or six months without a paycheck or health insurance; let them sit at home and think about what they should do in Washington.”

“People want to blame guns for all the violence and killings. What about people going out and drinking liquor, getting in a vehicle and killing adults and children? What about knives, bats? The list goes on and on. Are we going to ban liquor, vehicles, bats, knives and all the other things? It’s not the weapons; it’s the idiots behind them.”

“It is not my elected government officials with weapons that I fear tyranny from. It is the uneducated extremist in society with an assault rifle who wants the state to succeed from the union because it has a black president.”

“The NRA sank to a new low when they used children, in this case the president’s children, to try to scare or create prejudice in people’s minds and hearts against someone unstable, having a background check ... The NRA is losing ground. And, with this ad, they officially lost my support as well.”

“I read in the TimesDaily that the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank is going to have his salary cut in half from $23 million to $11.5 million for the wrongdoings of the Chase bank. I don’t know how he’s going to survive on $11.5 million.”

“You know, for 200 years it’s been journalists’ job to keep an eye on politicians’ foolishness. You all have never said anything bad about Obama in four years. ... You all will never say he did anything wrong — not in the next four years either.”

“Obama wants gun control. Tell me what kind of guns are protecting him and his family and why legal citizens cannot have the same protection for our family.”