benEzra
Moderator Emeritus
You mean, like people who support repubs in spite of their repeated and blatant violations of the 4th Amendment?It is an issue of credibility, when elected officials, who definitely characterize a party, are radical in one way, while some party member claims that the officials don't represent their views. One would have to ask the question why one stays with a party that does not actively represent them.
Not everyone who supports the RKBA is a conservative. Not all conservatives support the RKBA (the father of the original "assault weapons ban" now codified into 18 USC 922(r) was non other than arch-conservative William J. Bennett, and Sarah Brady is by all accounts a conservative in the Reagan mold, except for her gun-banning views), and conservatives have in general been the loudest voices supporting infringments of the First and Fourth Amendments.
Those who criticize the current Democratic party leadership for falling hook, line, and sinker for the ban-more-guns agenda are 100% correct. But there is a grassroots swell within the Democratic party against that crap, that is slowly and gradually changing some minds. Will Feinstein become pro-gun? Not in this lifetime. But in the country's heartland, starting at the local and state level, things are IMHO changing for the better, and the gun-haters at the DLC and elsewhere have lost a lot of their influence. It's a work in progress, and who knows how deeply it runs, but I believe it is real.