The failed world socialist-communistic system has not made them willing to relinquish the integral yearning for Revolution as the touch-stone of the leftist.
The revolution, the chaos, is the constant solution to Order that the leftist knows will throw the world into a mode where his Vision can seize control.
I don't begrudge anyone the right to self defense, and I think the more guns in the hands of honest citizens is never a bad thing.
But in the hands of these schitzo bunch of dingleberries...I just don't know..