Following that laughable Rolling Stoned article about the 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/the-5-most-dangerous-guns-in-america-20140714), it's good to see a follow up article about liberals that support the 2nd amendment.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/confessions-of-a-liberal-gun-lover-20140714

Tyranny can be left or right handed, and a case could be made that it's ambidextrous now." The clincher for Travis, however, was a tale of personal self-defense related by a female friend, who years ago was kidnapped and nearly raped along a lonely stretch of Texas highway. Luckily she had a pistol in her pocket, a .38 revolver, and with it shot her attacker in the stomach as he was unbuckling his pants. "And the lesson is: the police cannot be everywhere all the time, they are not omnipotent, and we don't want them to be," writes Travis. "There are times when the individual must be responsible for his or her own self-defense . . . Guns are the great equalizers, against larger predators, or the political tyranny so feared by the fundamentalist gun crowd." (Note that some on the far left and far right meet in their contempt and loathing for centralized power – a sign of hope.)

Now if said liberals (or anyone else) would just stop voting for those jerks that keep attacking the 2nd amendment...

Jeez, this brings back many memories and discussions with my favorite uncle who was both an extreme liberal and a gun owner. His whole argument was as long as it doesn't affect him he was all for gun control and confiscation. Yet he owned 2 guns which he shot competition with as a youth. He kept the pistol loaded and in his bedroom somewhere for self defense. His whole attitude was NIMBY. As long as his guns were unregistered he had nothing to worry about it so he wanted everyone else to lose their guns. While I pointed out his consistent hypocrisy he refused to acknowledge he was a hypocrite. To him it didn't matter what the facts were, he didn't feel he was a hypocrite and was doing and saying conflicting things. 

Thanks for sharing! Sometimes it seems us lefty 2a supporters seem too few and far in between. It's a tough job being surrounded by the 'enemy' on this issue but I've successfully converted at least a handful of people away from wanting to just "ban 'em all".

I know many far left, hippy dippys that are very pro-gun.  Especially the off the grid types that prefer the gov staying out of people business.

Of course, in a world often defined by left and right politics, there are always the "other" parties.  I consider myself a classical Libertarian, which I know not everyone agrees with, and many do not understand.