[Auntie Dem]

"...All I can figure is that liberals tend to be city-folk and city-folk are around lots of people all the time, where carrying your own weapon can't really protect you, so they figure just don't let anyone have the weapons..."

How do you figure that carrying a gun "around lots of people" won't protect you? That's, excuse the term, liberal nonsense.

If some scumbag in a crowd has a gun and wants to use it specifically on you, he's got to get close enough to YOU to use it. If HE can use HIS gun in a crowd, so can YOU. Now shooting in a crowd (versus shooting into a crowd) requires some forethought, training, and discipline, but you can minimize the chances of injury to unintended targets.

Liberals mostly want gun control because they project their own fears and hostility about guns and others upon the rest of us who aren't mentally handicapped by the disease of Liberalism.

[munchtipq]

I was just saying that's what they might be thinking. I don't know for sure, because, though I consider myself a liberal, I don't hold with that position. I was just trying to figure out how gun control became associated with liberalism at all. I don't know anything about the history of gun control in America, maybe I'll go read up on it and post it someday.