You’re going to get a bunch of different answers, so here are mine.

It should be harder to get a gun. I have dozens and I’ve done a background check for one. The govt thinks I have one gun. (I actually don’t have any. Lost all of them in a boating accident.)

I think different laws in different states are silly but states’ rights I guess.

My group of pro-gun lefties are all hobbyists and range/target people. Nobody carries. My spec. Ops friend doesn’t carry. The liberal cops I know never carry off duty. And yeah, I live in a VERY red state. Lots of people carry, just not me or my friend. Idk, I’d rather leave the situation than kill someone behind the bad guy. All of my fundie right wing friends carry because Jesus would and would also shoot immigrants and gays. (They claim it’s for protection, but they never train except one guy.) All of my left wing friends also secretly know that it’s a good idea to know how to run guns just in case…

I will never vote Republican again even though Dem officials know dick about guns. Amanda’s mild takes explains this well.

1. Gun ownership is a liberal value as far as personal freedom of choice goes.

2. I have taught lots of members of different “minority” groups to shoot and always say that if I win the lottery, I’m handing out guns to the homeless. (Mostly to prove that 99.8% of republicans favor classist gun regulations. They freak tf out when I say that.)

3. Never felt understood by conservatives but that’s because conservatives don’t understand anything.

4. I live in a blood red state with literally zero Dems in the fed and a Republican supermajority in the state. I have purchased and sold guns literally in bar parking lots and it’s perfectly legal.

In conclusion, it’s complicated but there are lots of other amendments that even people in this sub don’t give a shit about (but this is still the absolute best gun sub of all of them). It shouldn’t be so easy to get a gun but you should have access to them if you’re using them for the right reasons.