>Middle class women have been driving the resistance.
Really makes you ponder women's suffrage

I'd argue it was #MeToo.

They've basically re-written alot of the Democratic party at this point.

Didn't the political divide map closest to guns?

Issue-wise, yes.

It's also heavily decided by population density.

that would be authoritarian vs libertarian

not left/right

many gun owning liberals

Guns are a true urban/rural issue.

Also didn't white wahmen get Trump elected?

In part.

many reasons trump got elected

Not in total.

I remember him scoring remarkably well within certain age groups

2016 = Hilary beat herself

2020 = people vote for trump

Mostly voter turnout was low, which favors Republicans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoolJjRxExA

So glad Harmful is back

Rural people (liberals included) tend to see guns as key tools for fending against animals and potential attackers.

Urbanites (conservatives included) see guns purely as a weapon for crime.

Which is interesting because there are more human attackers in the cities

A theory I like is that rural living tends to make people self-reliant. Urban living makes people dependent.

people in citys have a stronger force acting on them than self preservation

media

So when you're at risk of being attacked, rural people will tend to ask what they might do to protect themselves. Urbanites will tend to ask what it would take to get someone else to take care of them.

besides the government doesent get to spend your tax money on defending you if you can defend yourself

The problem there is that the latter isn't really feasible

Government generally doesn't defend you. Government cleans up the mess afterwards.

Feasibility doesn't matter. Appearance of Feasibility does.

The government doesn't defend you in the present tense. The government tries to disincentivize attacking you and tries to punish your attacker

See but that's where we get into the cognitive dissonance

The argument makes some sense. IF the attacker cannot get a gun THEN they cannot attack you with said gun.

Wherein the left hates both cops and self defense

Or at least the most efficient method of self defense

The weakness is that the government doesn't actually tend to succeed at stopping people.

That argument tends to lead to spoon licenses.

police CAN work

But if you accept the premise, the logic is sound. And the government can at least make it harder for law abiding people and reduce the number in circulation.

Oi m8

But in practice, guns still find their ways into the hands of gangs and the like.