The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is under fire, so to speak.

Everyone agrees violence is roaming across the country: police are under assault, targeted for assassination by “activists” who have more in common with anarchists and Marxists than they do anyone else.

Added to this is the threat of terrorism rooted in Islam (few want to say that, couching it in terms of radical Islamist terrorism), and citizens of the U.S. feel threatened and unsafe.

In many ways we are facing unprecedented challenges. The Trojan Horse of jihadists will get worse if Donald Trump isn’t elected president. Hillary Clinton wants to follow the lead of Angela Merkel and allow millions of Middle Eastern refugees into the country, without vetting them.

This is a staggering display of insanity.

The issue of gun control is so polarizing, one wonders if tensions will ever ease over it.

And that’s the point, I think. It’s actually pointless to argue.

So long as we live in a flawed world, evil people will threaten peace-loving people, who are in the majority.

Liberals and leftists often decry the presence of guns in our world. Leftist Shane Claiborne, among other things, is involved in efforts to break down firearms and make them into plows, etc.

He’s able to do that from the relative safety of the United States. Yet his extreme naiveté ultimately endangers him, his family, and his followers.

The fact is, bad men like ISIS murder defenseless men, women, and children. We don’t live in an idealized world; we live in a world threatened by evil people.

Arguments over gun control won’t fade away. Happily for all of us, we can decide to follow our consciences.

As for me, I have some of the 300+ million guns in this country and I know how to use them. If it comes down to it, I’ll protect myself, and my family.

If Shane Claiborne wants to make dinnerware out of a revolver, let him.

You won’t get an argument from me.