Somehow since the shootings in Tuscon by a deranged man, the left in this country want to discuss the first amendment rather than addressing the second amendment.

The call has been put out for civility, demanding attention to words that incite, such as ‘crosshairs’  ‘target’ and ‘killing’ jobs.

The Sheriff of Tuscon blamed the shootings on talk radio and the likes of Sara Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

The Democrats again raised the fairness doctrine and CNN promised to be more careful with the words it uses and, ‘crosshairs’ is no longer in its style book.

ABC’ s Christiane Armanpour likened the ‘political atmosphere’ to the days when President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert were assassinated.

The attack dogs from the Democratic party blamed the shootings on the right and ‘targeted’ the Tea Party.

Having had his henchmen lay the groundwork for diplomacy, President Obama at a memorial for the victims and injured said, “At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized – at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do – it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

But it was only weeks later that a member of Obama’s own party came out on the house floor and called “Republicans Nazis.”

He tried to deny it in a subsequent apology, but everyone knows what Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn) said on the floor of the House, “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it.  Like blood libel.  That’s the same kind of thing.”

Cohen’s original statement had legs, his apology, for what it was, did not grab the front pages. He continued to say that “Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it – believed it, and you have the holocaust.  We heard this on the floor, government takeover of health care, and people have come to believe that too.”

Words did not kill on that horrific day in Tuscon, it was a deranged man who shouldn’t have had a gun, least of all one that enabled him to fire some 30 rounds of bullets into a crowd where a Congresswoman was meeting with her constituents.

One of the greatest things about this nation and its democracy is the Constitution and the first amendment . . . free speech!

One of the weakest parts of our Constitution is the second amendment, the right to bear arms!

Unfortunately our leaders are debating the wrong issue.