They are hard-core Ron Paul Libertarians.
And while I think they would probably not want to assist any gun confiscation efforts, if it were presented to them as cracking down on racist, homophobic, extreme right-wing Christian conservatives, in a militia or Klan-type group, I could see them doing it happily.
“And while I think they would probably not want to assist any gun confiscation efforts, if it were presented to them as cracking down on racist, homophobic, extreme right-wing Christian conservatives, in a militia or Klan-type group, I could see them doing it happily.”
My brother is a strong religious conservative, bent on ensuring no one has access to “sin.” I love my brother, but he would happily turn on 2nd Ammendment rights to get a perfect and holy government, since you shouldn’t be able to protect yourself from a “holy” government saving society by saving you from yourself. Just about everyone in his church has the same definition of “freedom.”
I’m not a Paultard and have corrected quite a few this past week who made some retarded statements about a (completely justified) police shooting. However, these folks don’t want the government in almost anything. Any statement to the contrary ignores facts to set up a straw man argument to defeat those who would agree with you on this issue. Not very smart on your part.
Believing that all or even most religous “conservatives” are going to stand with you on the 2nd Ammendment is just stupid and ignores both the rhetoric coming from many churches and history.
As for the great Puritan General, soldiers have differing opinions of him. Denying things to others is a particular penchant of his.
As for soldiers, you’re unlikely to find a consensus in the military any more than you are in the public in general. However, the military tends to be much more conservative and I doubt many will enforce a law they either would not abide by themselves or that would cause their own families to go to prison.