Have you ever met a .....

[CentralTexas]

The other thread on have you met a liberal that supports the 2A got me thinking. I know several but have you ever met an anti-gun conservative? I know many and meet more all the time. A friend of mine is a hard core Bush supporter and thinks more than hunting guns should go, I find these types more common and more dangerous. I know people in gun shops who don't keep up with the politics, don't belong to the NRA,Goa etc. can also name far too many elected "Republicans" that don't support my gun rights etc.
CenTex

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yep. Lots of Republicans think the Bill of Rights is a smorgasbörd rather than the law of the land.

Real conservatives who are anti-Second Amendment bigots? No. Republicans? More than a few.

 

[possenti]

A salesman who used to come to my work would talk to me about "the issues" since he noticed I listened to talk radio.

He seemed like the "perfect Republican" - until one day, he said: "The only issue I disagree with the party on is the 'gun issue'. They need to get those 'assault weapons' off the streets. No one needs those."

After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I got out my soapbox and gave one of the finest lectures on the RKBA I'd ever given. I then asked him to re-think his position and invited him to go shooting with me. He never took the offer, and I didn't get a chance to talk to him much after that. I still wonder if I ever got through to him.

I agree with an earlier poster who said that these types are more dangerous than gun-grabbing libs. A quote from C.S. Lewis illustrates this well:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

 

[Tom Servo]

Yeah, Gary Kleck. He's an avowed liberal, member of Amnesty Intl and ACLU. He set out to conduct an unbiased study to prove the "dangers" of handgun ownership during the Carter administration and came out believing not his preconceived notions, but the truth, which is that Americans use handguns for legitimate self-defense around 2.5 million times per year, and that CCW issuance lowers crime measurably.

It takes a big man to admit he was wrong, and an even bigger one to do it in the academic arena.

He's written several good books on the subject, and his work is what I turn to first to counter most of the liberal hoo-haw like the 43:1 rule.