By Craig Andresen on March 6, 2011

Seemingly, it happens whenever there is a high profile event with dire consequences. It has happened before and it WILL happen again. Someone unhinged goes off and starts shooting. People get hurt, people die. It happens, somewhere, every day but only when it happens in a high profile situation do the liberals/socialists come out step up and proclaim they have the only sensible answer to future acts of madness.

Like moths to flames, they are lured by the nearest microphone and news camera to begin yet another tirade against guns. Gun control, more regulations, making certain guns illegal, making certain ammo or the quantity of it illegal is the only way to prevent the NEXT tragic event. More control, less ammo, more regulations and fewer guns…They say it’s for our own safety…They say fewer will die…They say nobody needs such weapons. That’s what they say. What they WON’T say is what it says in the Bill of Rights.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

To understand WHY liberals/socialists won’t say aloud and would much rather ignore altogether the second amendment, one has to first understand exactly WHY the second amendment even exists.

That amendment exists, in great part for exactly the reason the Constitution exists. For OUR protection.

The founders were visionaries with 20/20 hindsight. They knew that “We the People” should have the right, and the means to protect ourselves, our property and our families from those who would attempt to violently take those things from us. They also, with their 20/20 hindsight, knew that “We the People” should also be extended the right and means to protect ourselves and our God given freedoms from a government bent on greed, absolute power and abusive control. The founders made sure that citizens could their lives and property AND if necessary and all else failed, remove their government by force.

Liberal/socialists really hate that last part.

Liberals, unable to dismiss the facts, will tell anyone within shooting distance that at the very least, the number of bullets and size of the magazine which contains them should be limited. They will quickly point out the latest shooting and proclaim arrogantly that “if he had fewer bullets less people would have been killed and there’s NO WAY you can argue against that.” Of course at that point they are just drooling over what they know will be your response. They fully expect you to bring up the second amendment and state that you have the right to own a weapon. That is when their chests puff out, a smirk crosses their lips and a pomposity of intellectual holier than thou bombast emanates from them as they dismissively speak down to you and tell you that “At the time that was written, they had NO WAY of knowing that 200 years later, weapons the likes of which we have today or that clips that hold 31 bullets would even exist.”

Take a breath, a deep one, look perplexed utter a low and guttural “Hmmm” and just when they KNOW they have you on the ropes…fire one over their bow. “Well, it sure doesn’t say anything about limiting the length of a barrel or try to tell you how many musket balls you can own either…does it?”

Liberal reality is that We the People are not to be trusted with guns and bullets. The constitutional reality, the only word on the topic that counts says otherwise. Their argument without doubt infringes upon that which… shall not be infringed.