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Isn’t it stunning how liberals can so vociferously defend all forms of speech under the First Amendment while so resoundingly renounce and seek to limit the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment?

Liberal hypocrisy aside, our constitutional guarantees for both of those two amendments come from the very same place, the Bill of Rights, which was necessary for the very formation of our nation. Without the first ten amendments to that glorious document and the assurance provided therein, the Constitution itself likely would never have been ratified.

Even former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice fell into the liberal trap of guilt and remorse following the tragic loss of life from the Parkland Florida shooting when she called for consideration of a host of limits on the rights of lawful gun owners.

Of course, lightweights like former Congresswoman Gwen Graham also weighed in arguing that voters and elected leaders must choose between children and the NRA. Leave it to Graham to try to both capitalize on the deaths of 17 people while simultaneously reducing the argument to a national gun rights group who had nothing to do with the tragedy.

Sadly, Ms. Graham and people of her ilk fail to realize that the argument is about freedom and protection, not guns and certainly not the NRA. The right to keep and bear arms is not guaranteed by the NRA, but by the supreme document of this land.  If Democrats don’t like this guarantee, there is a process by which to amend the constitution and it is not done by name-calling, complaining and whining.

No words can express the deep sadness we all feel for the victims and their families for the tragedy carried out by a mad man. Nothing can right that wrong. But ignoring the liberties granted to us by the Constitution and conjuring up drama by denouncing an organization show the short-sighted failure of liberals to appreciate freedom earned by the blood of patriots they neither understand nor appreciate.

Even the stunning revelations that these deaths could have been avoided had law enforcement acted quicker and paid closer attention to prior threats do nothing to lessen the sting of this horrific tragedy. These killings shake our souls.

Gun rights advocates should not fall into the trap of blaming law enforcement for this shooting any more than gun control advocates should blame guns. Both may have played a limited role in the dreadful scene, but only the shooter committed a crime. There is one man to blame for this tragedy and Nikolas Cruz will most assuredly pay for his crime.