Excellent rant Selene! He does sound as if he leans to the left.
It also seems that the folks that engage in the firearms conversations are respectful to TM in that they keep it to a fairly brief back and forth exchange and then move back to terrorist hunting. No long winded exchange that leads the thread astray.
But, that's just my 2 cents and I am but one small voice in the vast cornucopia of TM. That's all I have to say about that :-)