Give me liberty or give me death.
— Patrick Henry, 1775
You have no civil liberties if you are dead.
— Senator Pat Roberts, (R-KS), 2006
The issue is completely straightforward. It could not have been put more clearly by Senator Roberts.
Congress has decided that the threat of another attack, and more dead civilians, is more important than the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. They are unabashed, unashamed cowards. They believe that the American people are unabashed, unashamed cowards.