It seems that there are quite a few people here who combine "liberal" with "gun-hating". There are a great many liberal gun nuts out there, and they would likely take exception to comments like these.
The far left liberals in any modern society have always been "gun-hating" so long as the guns they hate are in the hands of the opposition. They have always loved guns when in their own hands. While they might not show this love outright, they live it at the least vicariously through the guns in the hands of their armed goon squads. As a case in point, there was no more liberal political and social group than were the Nazis of WWII. Of course they attempted to confiscate guns to make society safer. All they were doing was making it easier to control the ghettos so they could round up and kill millions of people. Likewise there is no more liberal a modern day person than someone like Rosie O’Donnell who reportedly has armed goons (whoops guards) who accompany her everywhere. It is not that liberal are anti-gun per se, they are, or they who are on the left of center liberally are quite the control freak type of person. Guns or other arms in the hands of others aggravate them, and get their panties in a wad. This is seen time and time again when the likes of people like Howard Stern are reported to have concealed carry permits. Of course a recent political example would be Kerry when he ran for president. Read the interviews of him by outdoor writers. Read his description of how to hunt a deer by crawling on your belly. look at pictures of him carrying firearms with his finger on the trigger, while he looks at the camera with a goofy smile yet narry an apparent concern for where the gun is pointed. Guns are great for them when they suit their needs but; they seem to believe that guns are not great for others, is the impression I get from them. That kind of it is ok for me but not for you is a very liberal way of thinking.
This does not only go for guns, it goes for other things too. Take for example animal rights. According to PETA we should treat all animals with respect, we should not put unwanted pets to sleep, we should not use products that were the result of animal experimentation. Yet, the head of PETA is reported to take medication that was discovered only through years of animal experimentation (I believe for diabetes) and, it has been reported that PETA or its affiliates put animals to sleep in shelters they run when the shelters cannot adopt them out. Also look to The Humane Society of the US. This organization went so far as to take a name (at least part of a name) that is affiliated with animal adoption centers/shelters throughout the United States. "Humane Society" being the part to which I refer. Yet this same organization is pretty much anti pet keeping. Read their own literature; they are in no way like a local "Humane Society" from what I can tell.
Members of ALF and ELF to ultra extremist liberal groups reportedly have spray painted people who wear furs (while the person is wearing the fur, so to ruin it). Yet they wear leather shoes and belts and carry leather purses. I have witnessed this personally and as the goon who did the spraying ran off she shouted she was from ALF. It has also been suspected that some of the goons who are suspected members of ELF who were suspects in the torching of a car/SUV dealership arrived at one of these dealerships in an SUV and not on horseback as you might expect (sorry I cannot give further details).
A truly conservative outlook would on the other hand, preclude such action on the part of a conservative. An ultra conservative would allow just about anyone to keep and bear arms because if nothing else, the true conservative is conserving the Constitution and Bill Of Rights and a right that is as old as the first weapon. Of course there are those of a more liberal stint among so called conservatives who do not swing right when it comes to keeping and bearing arms. That is not a good thing. The truth of the matter is though that the left, has for the most part become very loony in recent years in regards to being anti conservative about anything and; an anti-firearms platform has become so much a pillar of left leaning politics, that many right leaning firearms aficionados simply see all liberals or left leaners as being anti-gun. Maybe, if those of the left who were pro-gun pushed harder for all to have arms bearing rights, they would be seen differently.
All the best,
Glenn B
