Rudy's not going to try to take your rights are mine. He agrees with the majority of the party platform, all but the social issues.
Rudy is a gun-grabber. That's all I need to know. I will NEVER vote for a politician who has ever stated that he wants to disarm me. If he does not want to trust me with a firearm to protect me and mine, I dare not trust him with my life or my family's lives. It comes down to being just that simple. Say whatever you want to, but unless he comes out and publicly apologises for his past antics AND calls for (and means it) total repeal of every victim disarmament "law" in the country and continues to do so right up until the election and after, he will never see my vote nor, likely, any vote from the millions of other gun-owners (the "gun culture") in this country. We won't vote for the other party's gun grabbers, so we'd likely sit on our hands.