Being a hunter or owning firearms doesn’t make one conservative. How principled are they? How about at personal cost or otherwise inconvenience.
I’ve passed up promotions. I’ve lost hundreds of thousands, lost jobs, lost “friends”. I won’t ever bend.
Many in gov work folded like a cheap suit when covid came along. It sure showed me how few truly will do the right thing.
Stevenson Washington over The Bridge of the Gods on the Columbia river. No state income tax in Wash, cross the river and shop and no sales tax in oregon.
They were principled to the point that they were held to a higher standard than other State employees because they wore a uniform, and if they wanted to keep their job, they had to follow the rules and regulations of the department, and the laws of the State, unlike the convicts they dealt with. They were Peace Officers who were on call, and basically on duty 24 hours a day.
They had to put up with the bureaucratic BS of the people who ran the department in Albany, NY...most of whom had never worked a day in the job, yet were telling them how to do their job, or these bureaucrats had been out of uniform for so many years, working as politically appointed stooges, they had forgotten where they came from, and spent their time dancing to the tune of the person that had appointed them, just to keep their position.
Officers and supervisors, which I was one, were told not to enforce the rules, and to look the other way when inmates violated those rules, because it would look bad to the big wigs in Albany, so we were told to stand down. There's nothing worse for morale, than telling someone in uniform not to do the job they were hired to do. If an officer wasnn't conservative when they took the job, they sure as hell became conservative not long afterward.
I've been retired 20 years. When I started the job, Democrat Hugh Carey was Governor of NY State. Mario Cuomo, who was a corrupt Governor succeeded him. I retired during Republican George Pataki's Governorship. After he completed his second term, and couldn't run again, Democrat Elliot Spitzer took the reins. Thankfully I was gone by then, so never had to work under Spitzer (who had to resign over using prostitutes), Democrat David Paterson (legally blind, and had to resign over sex allegations, and corruption), Democrat Andrew Cuomo (corrupt like his old man), and now Democrat Hochul (dumber than a box of rocks, and probably corrupt as well.) They're all Democrats, and corruption is their middle name. When you worked in uniform under pieces of crap like that, and saw how much the system changed for the worse while you were working in it, if you weren't conservative, you didn't have a brain.