Makes perfect sense to me.

Guns have two enemies. Rust & Democrats

Exactly what Don said. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen. I don’t know that I ever heard one news report about the leanings of these shooters, but if they can loosely tie someone with a parking ticket to the Tea Party, they circle like vultures.

Yeah, I’d like to see confirmation too, but at first glance this certainly fits with my experience of the mainstream liberal temperament. At the risk of straying into the dubious field of psychoanalysis–and long-distance at that–most blue-state liberal/progressive types have never been taught to control their emotions, and therefore can’t be trusted with instruments of lethal force. They simply assume that everyone else shares these acquired defects.

On the other hand, I’m aware of several liberals who aren’t spoiled brats or unhinged temper freaks, and who _are_ Second Amendment supporters. Those are the ones I’d personally assess as worth listening to because they might be right on other things as well.

(Disclaimer: I don’t know _what_ the hell I am politically, other than overwhelmingly anti-incumbent; a red-state non-conservative, maybe? I detest some elements of both liberalism and conservatism strongly enough to deny membership in either tribe.)