WHY RED AND BLUE ARE DIVIDED ON GUNS

- Blue voters live in urban areas where they can reasonably expect prompt protection from the police. Barring that, they live in areas where if they are in trouble and call for help, someone is likely to hear them. Thus the Blue voter is likely to have scant understanding of a Red voter’s almost religious support of the 2nd amendment – never mind that it is clearly spelled out in our Constitution.

- Red voters live in the hinter lands where even if they did manage to get a call off to the sheriff, his arrival at their property would likely be too late to do anything other than take a report. Thus this Red voter is likely to understand that his security is mainly his own responsibility and arms himself accordingly.

- Since most of the nation’s crime occurs in the Blue areas, Red voters remain baffled at why Blue voters don’t protect themselves from predators by passing right to carry firearms laws. Professor John Lott notes in his book, More Guns Less Crime, that there is no quicker, cheaper and more effective way to reduce crime than to arm responsible citizens.

- Because they have gotten their brains beaten out on this issue (not to mention 4 million voting NRA members), Blue pols’ position on the 2nd amendment has evolved from; “The only good firearm is banned firearm”; to “I’ve always been hunter. I’ve hunted all my life, and I am willing to be photographed once every four years dressed as a hunter as proof.”

- Red pols’ understand that the 2nd amendment means what it says. They know that bans on certain guns because of how the guns look rather than how they function is not only stupid but a violation of the Constitution.

- Blue pols’ desire to grab Red voter’s guns demonstrates the Blue’s intolerance for the Constitution and the Red voter’s right to keep and bear arms. Blues near hysteria about guns and gun owners paints them as intolerant elitist snobs who think that they know what is best for the rest of us, Constitution be damned, while they protect themselves from us rif-raf with their own... you guessed it...armed body guards.