You have to remember the New York Magazine author’s frame of reference...he is probably an Ivy League or Ivy League-lite graduate (NYU, Tufts, U. Chicago, Vanderbilt) who lives in a city with a handgun ban and whose Westchester/Upper East Side/Wellesley upbringing of 60-70’s era academics or lawyers who hated guns and the military.
He is probably gay, or bisexual and loves the “urban” Lefty life of HuffPo, MoveOn, MSM cocktail parties (no pun intended) and the pseudo-literary crowd whose doorman-protected buidings never include the oppressed masses they leave in perpetual victimhood, well, unless working as a janitor or maid.
Guns are as foreign to these types as you and I are of hearing food stamps and the EPA are helpful to the economy.
I was a literature major at a Northeastern private university. I wasn’t aware of much about politics until my last years, but when John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton showed up at my graduation, I knew how much I couldn’t stand them (yes, I voted for Perot and helped usher in Bubba’s 8-year Stained Blue Dress Era), but I digress...
Guns evoke irrational fear, not respect like Conservatives, to Liberals. They live by emotion and Hollywood, the MSM and Marxist Dems stoke their fears...all with armed bodyguards at their disposal, ironically.
Disarmament is the peacenik way to ensure nobody can hurt each other...or the same tactics Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Chavez use to create a murderous police state...say, like Mexico...aren’t guns illegal to citizens there? Chicago? DC?
I have concluded the Liberal is a lost cause, so programmed by media images (sounds and sights) that they are almost trained to despise guns, borders, freedom, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney or Paul Ryan by the “Sounds of Silence” type of reaction...
Who knows...
Good post.