The Left sees it as an instruction manual.
Yes, all of their rhetoric is about how they want to protect the weak in socity from the strong and yet all of their policies do the exact opposite.
They want to take firearms away from the law abiding and leave them at the mercy of those who would never obey the law.
The constantly write law that puts more power in the hands of government (how much stronger does government need to be) and takes it away from parents.