Who sacrifices the most to protect our Second Amendment rights?

It could be argued that it is NRA members that fund lobbyists to keep guns in the hands of Americans or gun manufacturers, gun traders and ammunition suppliers that provide us with their exceptional hardware. Closer yet are law enforcement officers that, when needed, do their best to protect us from getting shot by placing themselves in harms-way. In my mind, however, none sacrifices more than the thousand of innocent Americans that are maimed or killed for our right to bear arms; notwithstanding are their families and friends that must carry on.

Case in point is the woman whose curious two year old son recently pulled a gun from her purse and unintentionally shot and killed her in a store … A mother gone, wife gone, daughter gone, sister gone, aunt gone, cousin gone, friend gone, neighbor gone, a fellow American and Second Amendment hero gone. She paid the ultimate and lopsided price for our right to bear arms and there is no way to repay her.

We should remember her in our prayers as a hero and pray for all innocent Americans that have, or will, take a bullet to let this freedom ring.

Rick Lander
Poulsbo