One of the most important additions to our country’s Constitution is the Second Amendment. It protects every single person’s right to use a gun to defend themselves from dangerous people.

For example, earlier this week, a 25-year-old got into a fight with his girlfriend at her parent’s house and ended up shooting her. To save her life, her father grabbed his own gun and shot him to death. Situations like this highlight underscore the importance of gun ownership.

According to reports, Jessica Rusk, and her boyfriend, Thomas McNulty, who lived together in her parent’s basement in Georgia and share a son, got into a heated argument at about 4:30 A.M. The argument ended when McNulty got ahold of a shotgun and shot her in the back.

Thomas McNulty, 25, was shot & killed by his girlfriend's father. @HallCountySO says McNulty shot girlfriend first. She's in hospital. pic.twitter.com/C1hWQRGbPi — Chris Jose (@ChrisJoseWSB) June 5, 2017

The gunfire alerted her heroic father, Floyd Rusk, who grabbed his own gun and raced to the scene while her mother called 911. Within moments, he burst into their room and saw his daughter, who was still alive, lying in a pool of her own blood. Mortified and filled with adrenaline, he unloaded his entire clip into McNulty, killing him immediately. When paramedics arrived, they rushed his daughter to Northeast Georgia Medical Center. She’s currently listed as stable and is expected to make a full recovery. Since he was defending his daughter, no charges have been filed against the father.

Shortly after the shooting, Hall County Lt. Scott Ware spoke with reporters about the incident. “He had shot his girlfriend, who was 22 years old, in the back, and in response to that, the victim’s father shot and killed McNulty,” Ware explained. “Obviously violence would be the last resort,” he added, noting, “if you can avoid violence and call 911, you know, we would obviously prefer that no one gets hurt. That would be the best-case scenario.”

Unsurprisingly, the neighbors were shocked by the incident. Sabrena Kapetanis, their next door neighbor, told reporters, “it’s just tragic. I can’t believe it happened. They’re really good people.” Ultimately though, she believes the father was justified in killing McNulty. “All he sees is probably his daughter shot,” she explained, adding, “you don’t know what’s going on. You don’t have time to react, especially if he still has a gun in his hand. He did the only thing he could.”

Kapetanis was not the only one who felt the shooting was justified. “If that was the same situation with us, and somebody hurt our daughter, you know, we’re gun owners and we’d probably do the same thing,” reasoned another unidentified neighbor.

"That's going to haunt him." Neighbor reacts to deadly shooting in Hall Co. Father stepped in, shot & killed daughter's boyfriend. Live @ 5 pic.twitter.com/OSF416lIYY — Chris Jose (@ChrisJoseWSB) June 5, 2017

Prior to the shooting, McNulty was fired from his job for bringing a gun to work. He claimed he had forgotten it in his back pocket. Scott Corathers, his former boss, understood it was a mistake but still had to fire him. “He lasted about a week and, unfortunately, I had to let him go. He actually brought a handgun into one of my job sites,” he stated, noting, “he was a good employee who made a bad mistake.” When asked what he thought about the shooting, he said, “It’s kind of shocking to me.”

Incidents like this further prove just how importance guns are. If the father didn’t have a gun, it’s possible that his daughter would have been killed. After killing her, it’s likely that her boyfriend would have also killed her parents. He already committed one murder, it follows that he would be willing to commit more.

Many on the left argue that stories like this actually show why guns should be banned. They claim that if no one in the house had a gun, including McNulty, none of this would have happened in the first place. But this is completely absurd. Shooting her was proof that he was willing to physically hurt her. If there weren’t any guns around, he would’ve found something else, like a knife. She would still have gotten hurt. Without guns, the only difference would’ve been that the father would’ve had a harder time stopping his daughter’s dangerous boyfriend.

The left must not be allowed to restrict the American citizen’s right to bear arms. Without guns, law-abiding citizens won’t be able to effectively protect themselves from dangerous people. As a consequence, countless lives will be lost.