On January 20, 2013, Alex Pappas, Political Reporter for THE DAILY CALLER blog website, began the blog by saying:

“With the effects of her brain injury apparent through her slow speech, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened up the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on gun violence on Wednesday by saying, ‘Speaking is difficult but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem.’”

Pappas reports that Rep. Giffords said, “‘This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans.’”

“Without getting specific, Giffords called on Congress to do something about gun violence.

“‘Too many children are dying,’ she said. ‘Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you.’”

The first priority our government has toward its people is to respond to our nation’s Constitutional dictates, which, in this case, is to protect the general welfare of its citizen. The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. (Italics mine)

As the declaration states, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” That means, those officials that we Americans have elected to represent us should do so because we elected them to respond to our country’s Constitutional dictates, which is the means our various freedoms that are stated in our Declaration of Independence are observed, honored and executed.

We can observe those utterances and still honor the Second Amendment, which is the right to bear arms, without any conflict of interest whatsoever.

However, it’s how the Second Amendment dictates are carried out that I have great issue with. That is to say, what is currently debated in the Halls of Congress is the limiting of the amount of rounds of ammunition that should be allowed for any firearm to hold.  

As I mentioned above, Rep. Giffords opened up the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on gun violence on Wednesday by saying, “‘Too many children are dying,’ she said. ‘Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you.’”

Frankly, it shouldn’t be considered “hard,” nor ”courageous” to do what Congress should be expected to do if they’re going to represent ALL the American people they swore on the Constitution they would serve and protect.

Our Founding Fathers would expect nothing less of our representatives, our public servants. One of the several foundations of freedoms that the Constitution was founded on was public virtue, or the willingness for our politicians to give up their selfish interests to work toward something greater than themselves, which is, in this case, for the greater good, or to do everything in their power to save as many lives as possible by limiting the number of rounds that can be expended in a magazine clip before having the assailant have to reload.