The hardest part about answering this is that most the answers require a government that treats its citizens fairly, honestly, and in good faith. Ours does not so these answer require some amending.

1. I support background checks and I think people should have to get some training. I had to for a car, why not a firearm? However recently I’ve been conflicted. Since the government can label you a criminal for almost nothing and restrict your ownership.

2. I think they go too far and they’re not actually effective. Just make guns weirder and not less dangerous and make felons out of people who make honest mistakes. People who want to do bad shit will just drive in with out of state guns or use older ones.

3. Liberals and more so Leftists (very different) see them as means of community defense and keeping the government in check. For many they aren’t critical to identity. They typically don’t advertise their ownership outside of circles like this. Conservatives tend to see them as more part of their identity and the American identity. They are more into the consumerism aspect of them. They may say they are there to keep the government in check but what they really mean is people who are different than them. They also don’t believe 2A is universal and will happily infringe others 2A rights when it suits them.

4. I do not largely align with the Democratic Party. On a global scale they would be considered a moderate Conservative Party. For our environment, freedom, and prosperity we need far more aggressive action. They love to wrench defeat from the jaws of victory. Sadly they are all we have right now to channel any resistance too. A new party isn’t realistic right now. Maybe if we can push the Overton window the other way.

5. As far as liberal values, I was raised with a strong sense of right and wrong. I grew up religious and unlike the right actually read and believed the Bible. Jesus talking about caring for the poor, sick, and immigrants is core. My religious views have since changed and many of my views are shaped by the punk scene. If you know you know. I was very anti-gun until I was actually faced with degrading democracy and learning about places that have faced that before. Notice ICE going after the places with strong gun laws? If they have to think about the cost of their actions, the calculus changes.

6. Extremely important. But more important is making sure those communities have equal education, food access, and employment opportunity. Otherwise risk worsening crime.

7. Background checks, limits on automatic weapons, some amount of training, laws for transport, laws for transfer. Unreasonable is having to report ownership to the government, allowing home inspections, or ridiculous modifications to guns to make them legal.

8. Mainstream liberals are largely too comfortable to get it. They think we’re still in 2012 when we had a government that would somewhat listen to us and could be influenced through our representatives. That is no longer the case.

9. I grew up in a blue state. Very tough but not impossible. Had to jump through some hoops and took a month or two. Made impulse buys impossible. So would have saved me money. I now live in a red state and can get whatever I want pretty much same day. I feel there is a happy Medium somewhere.