[Washi]

I really think that many on the left are there simply because that side of the political spectrum is portrayed in popular culture as the "in" side.

Don't attempt to ascribe any thinking, logic, or understandable cause to their positions other than that they know what position they are supposed to support, as a liberal, so they support that position.

We know that the true believers in government and the media are against guns because guns equal personal freedom. They can't promote their cause that way to their useful idiots, however.

[StaffiT]

That may be true with some, but the rest…

This is the reason to properly label them Oppressives – they have no interest in freedom or liberty – just power and Oppression.