Why Leftists are immune to the "good guy with a gun" argument

Today I would like to highlight an article by Karen Kataline over at Townhall.com that tells us Why the Good Guy With a Gun Arguement Doesn't Work with Leftists. Of course, it sounds like click bait, and I bit, but it is an interesting look into the "mind" of your typical Leftist. I put "mind" in scare quotes because, from the description, it is obvious that these people react emotionally to any idea, never using reason and the thought processing parts of their brain. But let her tell it:

Conservatives have an excellent argument in favor of the Second Amendment by proclaiming that “it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.” Unfortunately, it makes no sense to Leftists and it’s instructive to examine why.

The Left has been working overtime to erase the difference between good guys and bad guys. To them, we are all just as capable of being Charles Manson as we are Mother Theresa. They claim that individual choice and personal responsibility has nothing to do with who is good and who is evil. Maybe that’s why they can always be counted upon to come to the defense of ruthless, hardened criminals. They have for decades perpetuated the idea that criminals are victims. Now, they've moved on to painting law-abiding citizens are criminals. This speeds us on the road to being all the same. Think of it as the redistribution of personal responsibility.

If you are white, male, Christian, or God-forbid, a Republican, you are already guilty without having done anything at all. If you dare to own a gun, you are de facto guilty. It doesn’t matter what choices you make. The Left does not consider this to be prejudice as long as the right people are pre-judged. They argue that they can perfect the world and our behavior by creating a “correct” society which they will define for us. We are merely spokes in their socialist utopian wheel.

I agree with everything said here except the part about the capability of everyone to commit murder. I believe we all have the capability. That is baked into us by our nature. Mankind is a predator, and as such, must restrain himself from praying on his fellow man.  I believe it is wrong to kill another human being because each of us was created in the image of God himself.  We, of course are not God, but we are also more than the animals.  Our DNA and a chimpanzee's may be 98% alike, but the other 2% makes us moral agents.  While some try to bring us down by showing that great apes may be able to learn the use of a very limited vocabulary, the fact is that never in a thousand years would an ape develop, much less teach other apes to use, a language.

That 2% of DNA makes all the difference.  No animal could compose, or play the great organ pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach.  No animal could dream up, much less play the guitar as Chet Atkins.  No animal could compose the works of Shakespeare, despite what statisticians might say about the subject of an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters.  No animal can conceive of basic algebra, let alone the calculus. On the other hand, no animal could have committed the atrocities of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.  For better and worse, we are not like the animals, and we are certainly not God.

Leftists, however, don't see these things for what they are, and continue to conflate the majority of the good guys with the small minority of those who choose to live by their own code, and take whatever it is they want.  They often even romanticize these people.  Yet somehow, they themselves are more "evolved" than the rest of us.  They have "seen" the future, and if we just give them the power, they will instruct us poor deplorable masses in the right way to live.  Well, good for them, but before we entrust them with all the power, perhaps one of them could demonstrate for us one of J.S. Bach's masterpieces on the organ?  Just one??  In the meantime, since evil people roam among us, we'll just keep these weapons just in case.