When it comes to gun control the reps are liberals and the dems are conservatives. The dems want very conservative control of the guns...confiscate them all. If you can't confiscate the guns, then regulate them into near uselessness. In short, guns for almost no one. The reps are very liberal with the gun laws, they prefer little or no laws on guns. In short, guns for all!
Actually you are factually incorrect, Conservatives want less Government, a conservative approach, less Regulation and invasive involvement = less Gun control. Progressive Liberal Democrats want more Government control. More Gun control, More Government intrusion, the Patriot act etc.... And no, not Guns for ALL, for the Law Abiding.
This country was founded on private gun ownership. Nothing could be more conservative than owning a firearm.
The problem is that liberal and conservative aren't particularly good descriptions in U.S. politics. Our so-called liberals are really progressives. Our conservatives are a combination between authoritarians and liberals.
One of our biggest problems when it comes to political discourse in this country is that we feel the need to pigeonhole people who disagree with us (heck, even those who agree with us!). I have viewpoints on individual issues that cover the political spectrum; I can't be thrown into anyone's simplistic little boxes. I'm as fierce a supporter of self-defense rights as I am a believer in equal rights regardless of race, gender, or orientation. I believe in environmental issues (liberal) and a strictly Constitutional government (conservative). In the end, we need to consider each person's positions as the INDIVIDUALS they are; not fall into the trap of collectively lumping everyone into neat little boxes in which they don't really fit.
There's a difference between "Liberal" and "liberal". One denotes a person who follows or espouses a leftist, authoritarian, "progressive" ideology; these people are not "liberal" in the classical sense.
I know this is really interesting huh ?! "Liberal" used to mean "more rights for the people". And "Conservative" used to mean "more rights conserved to the king/queen".
Such used to be the case. Then a dramatic shift of political ideology occurred in the united states approximately sixty years ago.
So you must mean this happened under Ike. 60 years ago Ike was the POTUS. I cannot remember anything changing or happening under Ike.
There is considerable difference; classical liberalism is a far from a leftist, authoritarian, "progressive" ideology as one can get.
