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(3,300 posts)They need to be on a higher level of understanding. One way we can help is to provide as much proof that we, as liberals, accept the 2nd amendment as a bedrock right of citizenship. I've personally never heard of any rational liberal propose somehow bypassing, ignoring, or eliminating the 2nd amendment.
Liberals, much more than conservatives, from my experience, believe in the rule of law. Whether right or wrong, we need to know what the rules are and that that they will be static throughout the conversation.
The second amendment, in the worst of times, (which may be sooner than we think) is our final protection against tyranny. It is a right that we should never take lightly, nor allow to be taken from us without cause. In the meantime, people should just relax and try to stay pragmatic and detached from these worst case ideas. Things tend to work out better than our fears reflect.
Never fired or owned a firearm. That's me. You are you. We can still be friends.