If my recollection is correct, one of the most leftist states, Vermont, strongly supports the 2nd.
“If my recollection is correct, one of the most leftist states, Vermont, strongly supports the 2nd.”
They do to some extent. The State had its Supreme Court declare Constitutional Carry the law of the land in the 1920’s, so it never had the restrictions on carry that much of the rest of the country passed during slavery(against slaves and free blacks), after the civil war(against freed slaves and former confederates), and then to protect organized crime and progressive politicians from 1911 through 1939 (Sullivan act and copycats).