A principled liberal doesn't shift in the wind either.
Rudy Giuliani sought to use his mayoral office to file baseless lawsuits against gun companies not for the purpose of winning money for his city, but rather for the purpose of putting them out of business. He clearly believed that, as mayor of one city, he had the authority to impose nationwide his own "gun control" agenda that legislatures had turned down.
I am unaware of his having repudiated his actions or sought to atone for them. Unless or until he does so, I see no reason to regard him as anything other than a gun-grabbing leftist.
Thank you. You explained better than I could why he is a tyrant at heart.
And some people want to put him in charge of the executive branch where he'll have more force than a bunch of city lawyers behind him. No thank you. No THANK you.