Reply #22: The best liberal gun control is...

[appal_jack]

The best liberal gun control is proper muzzle & trigger discipline at all times, and tight groups on the paper downrange.

I also support criminal background checks and most of the other firearms laws presently on the books in my present home state of NC. But NYC's firearms laws are oppressive, not liberal. And Bloomberg is not a liberal either: he is a whiny-sounding apologist for the wealthy elite, who cares little for the majority of the citizens he claims to represent.

I'll put my own liberal creds up for anyone to review:
I've been a non-violence trainer for direct actions, a counter-recruitment counselor during the Persian Gulf War 1, and a backwoods support crew-person during Earth First! encampments. I've been arrested doing non-violent civil disobedience in support of nuclear disarmament (once) and shutting down Wall Street (twice: 1989 & 1990). Back when Cheney was a Senator voting to still do business with Apartheid South Africa, I was in Dag Hammarskold Plaza demonstrating in favor of divestment and Nelson Mandela's freedom. I have taught courses on the environmental racism and toxicology of Cancer Alley in the Mississippi River Delta region, and won two major regional awards in the last three years for my present work in the fields of community and ecological sustainability.

I also strongly support all of the liberal notions enumerated in our nation's Bill of Rights, including the right for all citizens who so choose, to keep and bear arms.

This also happens to be my 1000th post at DU. I'm proud to make it on this topic, and to encourage you, nyc 4 Biden, to reconsider your own concept of liberal values.

-app

Edit for detail, and to say that Wraith's post just above mine is spot-on!