# Gun-totin' Liberals **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458 "2011-01-29T23:57:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/41 "2011-02-02T18:11:17Z")
Liberal gun toter… I have a Walther PPK now. It is a real piece though, and I would probably do better bashing an intruder in the head with it, than trying to shoot them. I learned my love of guns at the NRA. It was a BLAST working there, no pun intended. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/42 "2011-02-02T18:20:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Not to turn this into a debate about guns, but how have they been eroded? I’ve noticed zero difference in my gun ownership over the past 60 years, and I grew up in the era of guns not being an emotional issue. Of course, I have no interest in automatic weapons and believe them to be unnecessary for the ordinary hunter/citizen. Like every other issue these days, it’s been polarized by the nutsos on either extreme. The Gun Control act of 1968, the Import Ban of 1992, Brady Bill of 1993 and the AWB of 1996. _Your_ gun rights may not have been affected in any way but make no mistake, there have absolutely been limitations placed on gun ownership over the past decades. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/43 "2011-02-02T18:24:18Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The Gun Control act of 1968, the Import Ban of 1992, Brady Bill of 1993 and the AWB of 1996. > > _Your_ gun rights may not have been affected in any way but make no mistake, there have absolutely been limitations placed on gun ownership over the past decades. [Moderator Note]And let that be the end of this hijack, please.[/Moderator Note] ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/44 "2011-02-02T18:25:42Z")
Pro-union, old school hard core left. Labour party member from when I was 13 up to the betrayal of Clause IV socialism. Current owner of a M1 Garand and a Mossberg pistol grip 12 gauge. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/45 "2011-02-02T19:12:25Z")
Tree-hugging enviro-wacko conservationist liberal over here, who carries a .45. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/46 "2011-02-02T19:24:49Z")
About -2, -2 according to the Political Compass, so I guess mostly center. In the past I’ve voted for more (D) than ® candidates. Thanks to my C&R license, I’m a big fan of military surplus. If a rifle’s been dragged through the mud at the Battle of Stalingrad, I’m a fan. Opposed to any eroding of rights. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/47 "2011-02-02T20:33:33Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > A question: is there some **message board** devoted to gun topics where incendiary nonsensical sigs (as in signatures, not Sig Sauer) are forbidden, where…well, where people aren’t so _crazy_? [TheHighRoad.org](http://TheHighRoad.org) seems closest that I’ve found so far. Stop in at [The Liberal Gun Club forum](http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/) and see if you like it there. Somebody might go off on an anti Palin rant, or somesuch, now and then, but mostly it’s pretty calm and collected. We’ve got everything from outright communists to moderates, and even a republican or two, and we all (mostly) get along fine. I’m somewhat left of center on most issues, but have a license to carry and do, on occasion. Mostly I shoot holes in paper, and own more pistols than my wife knows about. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/48 "2011-02-03T03:04:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You can have my Mossberg pump for $50, if you want to drive down here to buy it. PM sent. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/49 "2011-02-03T03:07:42Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > Liberal gun toter… I have a Walther PPK now. I have a stainless steel PPK/S. I bought it in 2003 and still haven’t fired it. When I had friends up here to shoot with, we were blasting away with other parts of my collection. Now they’ve moved away, and it’s kind of boring to shoot alone. I’m sure I can drag my roommate to the range when it warms up and dries out a bit. I just dig the James Bondness of the PPK/S. I used to have a blue one in the '80s. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/50 "2011-02-03T03:10:28Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > About -2, -2 according to the Political Compass -8, -7 here. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/51 "2011-02-03T05:01:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I just dig the James Bondness of the PPK/S. I used to have a blue one in the '80s. I’ll bet you have the scar from the hammer bite to prove it, too. Like you, I think it’s an awesome looking piece, but my understanding is that it doesn’t quite live up to the appearance. Maybe someday when I have $700 or so burning a hole in my pocket I’ll get one, but that day is a ways away, if ever. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458/52 "2011-02-03T05:08:16Z")
I don’t remember ever being bitten by the one I had in the '80s. 700 simoleons? They’ve gone up a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-totin-liberals/569458.md?page=2)