We would do well to heed George Washington’s warning, since governments, under the guise of gun control and the pretense of making their citizens “more safe,” have exterminated over 56 million of their own people in the recent 20th century.

What is it about the guns used in these crimes that made these guns different than the 300 million other guns in America that didn’t “choose” to shoot innocent people? Is it really the steel? Do we need steel control? Is it really the fault of inanimate objects of steel? Or is it about what virtually everything today (according to the Left) is about: the escape from responsibility?

More God equals more freedom and accountability. When the conscience grows dark, both the slaves and the masters pose a great threat to humanity.

In light of the violence across America where a criminal uses a weapon to commit a crime, it is of interest to take note of the blatant hypocrisy of those who are to serve the people. This happens when they attempt to try and do a disservice by asking those they serve to do the opposite of what it is that they do.

It didn’t take long for The Man Who Would Be King to try to exploit last week’s tragedy in Oregon to advance his anti-gun agenda. Talk about shameless political pandering. He may have set a new record, even for the Imperial President. He heads to Roseburg today, doubtless to make things worse.

The problem we are dealing with is not a problem with guns, but the absence of them. When people carry arms, the world is a whole lot safer place. These mass shootings seem to occur in places where guns are either banned, or you’d never expect them to be there.

The natural and God-given Right of self-defense is perfectly summed up by this exposition found in America’s fundamental law which regulates all our civil government institutions: “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The Left has largely succeeded in removing the moral and behaviorial compass that guided generations of Americans from our very founding. Whatever your thoughts about Christianity, honesty compels you to acknowledge that violent events like the one in Oregon were exceedingly rare prior to the 1960s, and they seem to be more and more frequent in today’s America.

As a U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz has demonstrated a willingness to fight for our Second Amendment rights. He is working with GOA on legislation to repeal the Obama Administration’s gun ban that is (and will) affect millions of military veterans and senior citizens.

The Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago.