Common sense is a commodity in short supply some days and leaders ought to acknowledge it when they see it. These days it appears that the second amendment is the greatest of them all. It simply says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Do we really think that author James Madison or the Congress of 1789 could imagine the weapons of today or the debate in which we find ourselves?

Within weeks after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, a Chamber of Commerce 100 miles away announced its new fundraiser... a golf and shoot. It's true. Even in the shadow of the children being massacred, guns as sport raised money. The power of that cannot be lost. The possession and use of guns exists across all socio economic groups. Whether it's a hand gun on a city street, a shotgun in the hands of a hunter, the President of the United States skeet shooting with friends, Americans and guns have been connected since our beginnings as a nation. Guns kill; in the wrong hands they take away lives of the innocent. The second amendment, like all of our rights, comes with limitations and responsibilities.

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