There are gun owning leftists but their attitude is that it is right for them to be armed and morally forbidden for others to be armed or to commit the crime of self-defense.
“There are gun owning leftists but their attitude is that it is right for them to be armed and morally forbidden for others to be armed or to commit the crime of self-defense.”
I’m more thinking Democrats who still love America, not the hard-core Leftists who hate our country. At least the one who I knew very well was an America-loving Democrat, and so I questioned the hell out of him because of that contradiction (being a Democrat and loving America at the same time). He was TOTALLY CONVINCED that Democrats had no interest in grabbing his guns. That was 20 years ago and in Texas, where that was true, at least to some extent, so maybe he’s figured it out by now that today’s Democrat Party is FAR DIFFERENT.
So he was a conservative in every respect, but he still loved the Democrats and hated Republicans, again 20 years ago. Made him a very interesting subject for me. After long discussions, I finally got to the bottom of it - he was convinced that Democrats are “out for the little guy”, while, of course, Republicans are opposite. Also, his parents were UNION ACTIVISTS...so that’s all he heard growing up. It started to make sense at that point.