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An article greasy with emotionalisms, bad faith and childish choplogic. That is to say, roundly leftist.

The Left loathes gun rights because they loathe the notion of the sanctity of the individual over the power of the state. People with guns are less easy to control and to submit (even if only seemingly) to the will of the state.

At work here also is soft-headed liberalism, that which prefers comforting delusions and feel-good illogic over the eternal paradox of human nature at play in society (e.g., the truth that more gun rights actually reduce crime, just as lower taxes actually increase government revenue), and refuses to accept the basic risks that go along with the rewards and joys of liberty.

The shrill cry to strip citizens of their right to keep and bear arms –to infantilize all individuals because one behaved savagely – goes on and will go on despite all evidence of its inefficacy. That's what leftism is about.

The second amendment doesn't need to be debated. It needs to be reaffirmed.