If nothing else, the current controversy over gun control has exposed the true colors of the Left. And they’re definitely not red, white and blue.
 
Adept at sounding patriotic, our progressive pals have actually “evolved” to the point where they reject most of America’s founding principles.
 
Oh, they’ll take freedom of speech – but only for themselves. Freedom of religion has morphed into freedom from religion. And the second amendment is all about hunting, it has nothing to do with actually defending personal liberty.
 
For the most part the main steam media has mastered the art of duplicity when it comes to “informing” the masses. But sometimes the mask slips.
 
Ben Shapiro [Breitbart.com] had fun messing with CNN’s Piers Morgan last Thursday, skillfully prompting the cable host to reveal his real sentiments about a “little book” called the Constitution. Shapiro was on Morgan’s show to discuss the fractious issue of gun control.
From “Why I Brought Piers Morgan That ‘Little Book'” ~

The left pretends it is for the Second Amendment because it recognizes that the American public likes the Second Amendment. But the left has no real defense for the Second Amendment on a philosophical level. They say that they want assault weapons gone, as Piers Morgan does, in order to prevent gun death. But then they say that they’re fine with handgun ownership, which is the instrument used in exponentially more gun death. They can’t explain this mental gymnastics. When I asked Morgan about it, he replied, “We’ll come to that.” He never did…
 
… (Morgan) claimed he loved the Second Amendment. “I believe and respect an American’s (right), under the second amendment of the Constitution – that you kindly brought in – to defend themselves with a handgun or a pistol.” But when I explained to Morgan just why the Second Amendment was enshrined into law – in order to prevent the threat of foreign invasion and domestic usurpation – he balked and said that such an argument was absurd.

 
And how does he really feel about the Constitution?

… (A)ngry at me for having failed to bow to a bevy of rhetorical gambits culminating in a lackluster attempt to browbeat me with an old letter of Ronald Reagan’s, Morgan grabbed the copy of the Constitution I’d brought. Waving it my face, he nearly shouted, “You come in, you brandish your little book –”
 
For just a moment, the mask slipped. To Morgan, the Constitution was nothing more than a little book, not the single most important document in American history and the basis for the freest and most powerful nation in world history. It wasn’t a document to which politicians swear allegiance and for which American soldiers shed blood. It was a little book, an annoyance in the way of his all-compassionate perspective on gun control.

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The founders’ primary intention when drafting the United States Constitution was to enshrine self-governance. They sought to prevent a ruling class from emerging, becoming tyrants, and forcing their will on the people. Their aim was to keep governmental power concentrated in the hands of “we the people.”
Which is exactly why the Left hates the document. To Morgan, and his elitist cohorts in D.C. and the main stream media, the Constitution is, as Shapiro puts it; “a speed bump on the road to progress.” Just “an inconvenient relic of a bygone age.”
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Ben Shapiro, dauntless member of Team Breitbart, is the author of just-released “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America.”