[rockrr]

Here’s a FRiendly challenge for you: name for me one dhimmicrat who is unabashedly pro-2nd amendment. Just to show how clouded the issues is, I’ll spot you one that the NRA considers a “friend”: Harry “dingy” Reid.

I don’t know about you but his sort is the last guy I want on “my team”.

I know a number of leftists who pay lip-service to 2nd Amendment rights issues and they do so for one reason - to keep their jobs. one its own as an issue they demonstrably don’t GAS about our rights.

I applaud your open-mindedness but my problem (and I do admit that it is my problem) is that it’s difficult for me to extend too much faith in people that I have to constantly watch to ensure that they’re not stealing the silverware.

[absolootezer0]

Here’s a FRiendly challenge for you: name for me one dhimmicrat who is unabashedly pro-2nd amendment.

john dingell (mi). can't stand him. he's been in office forever, and he comes down right on (directly) 2d amendment votes, but usually toes the dem line on bills that indirectly effect 2A.

[Chiltepe]

I applaud your open-mindedness but my problem (and I do admit that it is my problem) is that it’s difficult for me to extend too much faith in people that I have to constantly watch to ensure that they’re not stealing the silverware.

I like this! I think I'll adopt it for my own uses, and slightly tweak it to say "I applaud your open-mindedness in inviting all stripes of people to the dinner party, but it's difficult for me to have faith in those I have to constantly watch to make sure they're not stealing the silverware." That's how I feel about high crime neighborhoods when someone says "It would be perfectly safe, if only the police were more intimately involved on a community level"... and my thought is always "good people don't need a smiling cop watching over their shoulder to be good."

[RC one]

I don’t know about you but his sort is the last guy I want on “my team”."

I don't know about you but I don't have a problem with having the senate majority leader loosely on my team instead of firmly on my opponents team.

I know a number of leftists who pay lip-service to 2nd Amendment rights issues

and I know plenty of republicans who do the same and I don't vote for them just because they have an R by their name. I will vote and I have, in fact, voted against Republicans that didn't support the 2A.

it’s difficult for me to extend too much faith in people

On that we definitely agree...