most Democrats not being armed or proficient with firearms.

Is this based on hard data or hyperbole?

I’m guessing I’d fit your definition of a Democrat but also your definition of anti-2FA.

I own exactly one firearm, but I used to own more. I don’t think I’ve ever told any of my friends that I own a gun, even our neighbor who’s mentioned his own multiple times. It’s just not something I feel compelled to talk about unless I’m actually going to shoot it.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings it made me sick to my stomach looking at the semiautomatic military style rifle I had. I got rid of it and all my other firearms, only keeping the first one I ever bought, because it was a gun I had always wanted.

That gun has sat in the safe for the last five years, with a barrel lock, unused. I pulled it out last week, stripped it, checked, cleaned it and lubed it. It’s back in the safe now alongside two magazines loaded with .45 hollow points and six of FMJs.

I’ve even been looking at shotguns recently but I’m not ready to believe we’re there yet.

Here’s the thing though, most of the people I know from growing up are like me. We’re all pretty liberal still these days, we grew up around firearms, learned how to use them properly in gun safety training. Some kids hunted regularly, others would target shoot on the family farm when visiting or at the cabin.

I’m a Xennial though. Maybe our generation beat the Armalite crazy wave. We were all about the .30-06 and distance.