Why does she fear her neighbor?
Is it because he's a gun owner, a Republican, or both??
I submit it's both.
Republicans usually stand against the type of hard left socialism she supports.
Republicans, especially gun owning members of the party, also know what the Second Amendment really means. It's not all about duck hunting or self defense, it stands as the method of removing (preventing) the sort of tyranny, Edwards and his wife represents. I'm convinced the hard left knows this and fears it, justifiably so!! The hard left lives by the late Chairman Mao's words, wherein he said "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun and that gun must never be allowed to fall from the grasp of the Communist (Democratic) Party".
In this sense, methinks her fears are justified!!