the fact of the matter is that those who are "against the Second Amendment" are far more likely to be "liberal" than anything else.
Not really. Most gun-control advocates map out centrist to center-left, with some outliers on the right and far left.
Barbara Boxer? Yes, she's a liberal.
Dianne Feinstein? Centrist communitarian, hated by liberals for her authoritarian leanings and corporatism.
Charles Schumer? Center-left "Third Way" schemer.
Carolyn McCarthy? Single-issue zealot who votes center-left in order to keep her seat, but didn't even bother to change her Republican voter registration until after serving two terms in Congress.
Sarah Brady? Center-right neoconservative and single-issue zealot.
Paul Helmke, head of the Brady Campaign? Center-right neoconservative and single-issue zealot.
Wesley Clark? Center-left authoritarian.
William J. Bennett, father of the first Federal AWB (the Bush the Elder XO later codified in 18 USC 922)? Far right neoconservative.
Alberto "No Habeus Corpus" Gonzales, father of the "No Fly, No Buy" proposals? Center-right neoconservative.
Bill/Hill Clinton? Centrist Third Way communitarians.
Rudy Guliani? Centrist authoritarian law-and-order type.
Yes, it is true that too many liberals
are anti-gun, primarily due to sheer ignorance and aided by a general lack of skepticism toward the media. But it is not true that "most anti-gunners are liberals," and the gun-owner-hells that are the UK and Australia were made that way by their respective conservative parties in order to be "tough on crime" (or in the case of most UK gun controls, "tough on Communists").
I'm not saying that you should ignore anti-gun positions by various liberals, OR that the anti-2ndA planks in the Dem platform (put there by centrist nonliberals, BTW) are somehow OK and don't need to go (they most certainly do). I'm saying that stereotyping gun restrictions as a "liberal issue" will keep you from seeing who your real enemies are, and will cause you to lump a good many of your friends in with your enemies and a good many of your enemies in with your friends.
One MUST "pigeon-hole" his opponents. Know thy enemy. One must pigeon-hole his allies as well. Know who you can count on.
Pigeon-holding
prevents you from knowing your enemy. Such superficial classification lumps friends in with enemies, and enemies with friends.