In a comment at a recent Town Hall meeting in Colorado, President Clinton had no choice but to admit that gun control would not have prevented to tragedy at Columbine High School. In fact, he was forced to say so many times in response to questions from the audience. Interestingly, this admission came as he was stumping for more gun control laws in Colorado.

Here is part of that interview (the entire transcript can be read here)

"MR. BROKAW: Let's talk about the larger picture when it comes to safety checks and gun controls and the question of gun control versus gun safety. If you put all of that on the table, and then you look at what happened in Columbine High School, and we know what was in the minds of Harris and Klebold -- we've heard the tapes -- there are no laws in the world that would have kept them from carrying out that that act.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, you may be right. The young woman who provided one of the guns said that if she'd been subject to a background check she wouldn't have purchased the gun at the gun show. But you may be right about that. There's been a recent study showing that a lot of these terrible incidents don't necessarily fit a profile, that young people nearly always give some heads up to some peer and never do it to their own families."

And there it is. As clear as day. All this time he has been demanding more gun control and using the tragedy as his rallying cry, he has known better. Or, as NRA president Charlton Heston currently says: "When you say something wrong, it is a mistake. When you know it is wrong, it is a lie." And Clinton even had to agree with that.

Why is this little admission so important? Because it is the first time that any of the Clinton/Gore gun grabbers have ponied up to the truth. Criminals commit crimes. Not guns and not video games and not movies. Criminals. And all these laws only affect the law abiding.

It may not seem like much, but from that tiny kernel of unintended truth can sprout the greater realization that it really is the criminals and not the law-abiding. That we really do have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and that we intend to keep it and accept the responsibility that comes with any right.