To the 2nd amendment extremists - you have the blood of children on your hands

[TheKentuckian]

157. Meh...party and people are usually off limits but issues? Pretty rare, folks hold clear right wing

positions on labor, trade, taxes, and the military all day every day.

There are plenty that wouldn't even be in accepted circles of the TeaPubliKlan party even 15 years ago on civil liberties.

Hell, the party is chock full of neocons, neoliberals, authoritarians of all stripes.

Gun control may be a Democratic plank but it isn't a liberal position, it is an authoritarian one that in virtually all cases seeks not to eliminate a right (which is conservative as it is, regressive as a matter of a fact) but to limit it to the few the few, in fact to those most abusive in the power structure that exist to protect it, not citizens. I don't get the liberal bit at all, no matter how popular with self identifying liberals.

Like I said, I see it as an authoritarian versus libertarian issue. Authoritarian is at odds with liberalism.

Either way let's not pretend that there aren't some rightest folk all around on some issues from bottom to tippy top. How is the right to keep and bear arms by individuals somehow the most rightwing position of all times?
Authoritarian governments historically demand an unarmed populace. The right is enumerated for thousands of years of history.