With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.