Again I’m not a Daily Kos reader, nor will I become one. Still the subject of this post got me leafing through some articles and reading the comments. In that I found this post, it seems there’s an entire series on Kos on the 2nd Amendment from the pro-rights side.
BTW just for the sake of discussion, the term “liberal” is based off of the same root word as “libertarian”, which is Liberty. In running in Libertarian circles I’ve found just as many Right-wingers who are frustrated with the Authoritarian and Daddy-state nonsense of the Republican party, as I do Left-Wingers who are frustrated with the Authoritarian and Nanny-State nonsense of the Democrat party (FYI, most of those issues are shared between these groups, and those issues are what are identical between the two major parties). If you value individual liberty, you value individual life, self defense, and freedom from Tyranny. If you’re concerned about these issues and you are NOT armed, you need to think a little more.
Now the term “Progressive” (which must ALWAYS be written in quotes, as the root word is “Progress” which it is the opposite of) is the current code word for “Followers of Karl Marx”. These people (and the horrible regimes that used the Communist Manifesto as a core building block) are the major proponents of Gun Control and suppression of individual liberty in America. You see Marxists (or “Progressives”) believe that all in the Worker Class are equal, so one should never have the right to harm or kill another, no matter the circumstance. Also they believe in a Political or Governing, or ruling class which has absolute power over the working class, so an armed populace is a direct threat to this.
You’ll also notice that all anti-gun groups are all DEEPLY swung to the “Progressive” ideology, and I suspect that Paul Helmke was released from the Brady Campaign because he was in fact a Republican.
So really Gun Rights are spread widely across the political landscape, while gun-control is finding itself further and further isolated.
