In the 1950’s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized upon the issue of communists in the government as a means of gaining political advantage.  In truth, there were some communists in the government, most famously Alger Hiss, but McCarthy lost control, and embarked on largely fictional accusations of communists in every field and under every bed.  Lives were ruined, and when McCarthy expanded his witch hunt to supposed communists in the Army, the resulting televised hearings ended with McCarthy censured by the Senate.  The Army’s counsel, Joseph Welch is best known for this on-air rebuke of McCarthy,  “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.  Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”  And it is ever thus.  When a politician or a political Party uses a real problem to advance its extremist political ends, our republic is placed at risk.  Today’s Democrats are now using the gun control issue to advance their fading political prospects, and the republic be damned.  They’re not concerned by this since they have no use for our republic, preferring instead to rule by decree.  The rash of gun crimes, which culminated in the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde are symptoms of a real problem; a problem which cries out for meaningful action by our lawmakers.  The problem won’t be addressed by passing some new meaningless gun regulations that will hamper the law abiding but will hinder the criminals not at all because, and this may come as a surprise to Leftists, criminals don’t obey any laws.  The latest mass shootings were perpetrated by people with mental disorders.  Keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill should be a priority.  Instead of gun control, we need nut control.  More and better “red flag” laws might prevent some shootings by stopping bad actors when they show themselves to be potential threats.  Schools are at risk.  A comprehensive plan would include hardening of school buildings and increased security in schools.  Democrats aren’t interested in a comprehensive approach.  They want only gun control that declares broad categories of guns illegal, renders them unusable, or orders their confiscations, and the Constitution be damned.  Democrat Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island minced no words.  When some questioned whether Democrat proposals were consistent with due process, Cicilline said, “spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights.”  This neatly sums up the Democrat view of our constitutional republic, as far as Democrats are concerned, “the document which is the supreme law of the land is bullshit.”  The left wing media jumped right onboard too.  Elie Mystal of MSNBC, claimed that the Second Amendment was only created to “preserve slavery and white supremacy.”  Mystal raved on, “This is what those white guys said when they were debating the Second Amendment.  They said that they needed a Second Amendment because they needed the armed disciplined.”  This goes to show that, in the hands of a demagogue, a bit of truth is what Congressman Cicilline might call, nothing more than bullshit.  The “white guy” who said part of what Mystal ranted about was George Washington, who told Congress in 1790,“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…”  The object wasn’t to protect “those white guys” from slaves, but to protect the rights of citizens from being stolen from them by a standing army.  The Second Amendment was enacted when British oppressions were fresh in the minds of the Founders.  It was enacted not to preserve slavery,  but to prevent Americans from being enslaved by their new government.  Thomas Jefferson agreed, “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”  George Mason concurred, “To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”  And no, it wasn’t just Southerners who supported the right to bear arms. “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed” – Noah Webster.  “What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty” – Thomas Paine.  “Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins” – Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts.  So, Mr. Mystal, spare me your race-baiting bullcrap.  Democrats continually talk about passing “common-sense” gun reforms, but they resist any reasonable compromise.  November is coming, so it must be all or nothing.  Their left wing contributors will settle for nothing less than confiscation of all guns in private hands.  Well, not all guns in private hands, just the guns in the hands of people who obey the law.  Democrats have no intention of trying to take guns away from criminals.  Here’s a tip for the left wing blowhards.  If you insist on confiscating guns, I’m with you, on one condition.  You have to start your confiscations on the South side of Chicago.  Just send Beto O’Rourke door to door to ask the gangbangers to please had over their illegal guns.  After all, the gangsters have more machine guns than Al Capone every dreamed of having.  They’ll give Beto the guns, or at least the bullets.  But Beto needn’t worry because Democrats are unconcerned about the nearly 10,000 black Americans murdered every year, nearly all by urban criminals with illegal guns.  They’re largely unconcerned by urban crime at all.  They’d prefer to pass unconstitutional gun laws that will turn law abiding citizens into criminals.  And for what?  To try to distract Americans from the disaster which is the Biden Administration.  They’ll rant about guns, abortion, and white supremacy to try to keep their useless butts in office.  They’ll seek political advantage from the blood of little children.  “Have they no decency?  No they do not.