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Thinking about this, it does raise an interesting point. How did 2A rights become a conservative position? What is it that makes this conservative and not liberal? After all, liberals are generally for more freedom and individual rights (witness the ACLU).

I know there are true liberals out there that will disagree with conservatives on almost every political position except that they also support gun rights. And then there are a lot of middle of the road people who have some positions on the liberal side and some on the conservative side. But they also support gun rights.

For the liberals and the moderates on both sides of the aisle, the question is not how to convert them. There are large groups who already support 2A rights. The question is how to convince them to make this their top priority when voting. Most gun rights people are quick to point out that the Second is the one right that guarantees the others. But, if a person really does not believe that the US government will ever become a tyranny, how do you convince them that this should be their top issue?

Obviously, I really do not care how the other person feels on abortion, religion, welfare, health care, or a bunch of other issues, if I want him as an ally on this issue. But I do want him to place this much higher on his scale of priorities. This is what i see as the problem we need to address. As gun rights supporters, we do not want to convert liberals, just change their priorities list to be closer to what we want.

I may want to convert their beliefs on other issues, but from recent polls, the majority of the people agree with us on this. We just need them to place this higher on prioritization. And if we can agree on this goal, we can agree on tactics to get there as the next step.