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I certainly can't disagree with your main points. It is very hard to get people to change their voting patterns strictly on one issue, be it gun control or anything else. I think you are correct in your position that those with liberal slantings will likely vote liberal and accept everything that comes with it. This is where the NRA and similar organizations are very important. They organize voters. A politician only sees a 3 million voter block and this does affect how they vote. Gun control comes in a series of small steps. Maybe the best action is to convenience our liberal friends to join the NRA rather than attempt to convert. Probably an easier thing to do that to get someone to abandon a life time of political ideology. If we could get a million moderate liberals as NRA members, we might make the biggest impact.

We are talking about two different things here fellas. The politicians, on both the left and the right, who want a totalitarian state, and the average voter. Sure, the guy in power who wants to put his boot on our necks is not afraid of guns per se, he just wants absolute control and the first step to getting that is to disarm the public.
My comments are referring to the average American citizen. The waitress, the bank teller, the construction worker who may be leaning to the left politically and feel that gun control is prudent. I believe that most people who fall into that category have little to no experience around guns and have a fear of them based on that lack of experience. The politicians who want gun control for political power will prey on the fears of these voters, but I think that we, as gun owners have the ability to counter that by educating our friends who may fall into this category.
We are in the United States of America, and even the most black hearted politicians are still at the mercy of the voter. If we do nothing to help advance gun rights education among the fearful segment of our voting public, we will enable the politicians with dreams of absolute control to take our guns away. At that point, it won't matter what any of us think.

I think anytime we set out to "convert" someone, we are likely in a losing battle. The feeling that creates is "your wrong, and I am right" and that tends to harden the listener regardless of political affiliation. While I am personally very conservative, I am not sure that I have more conservative friends than liberal. I think that most of my friends are moderate. I have a young lady I work with who is very sweet, smart and talented, but an extreme liberal. I just scratch my head sometimes at the comments that she makes. Still, I respect her right as an American to have those opinions, regardless of how off base I think they are. I won't try to change her mind, and while I consider myself open-minded, she would have her work cut out for her if she were going to sway me in the Democrat direction.

Fear of guns is almost universally linked to a lack of experience and knowledge of guns. I would suggest inviting your liberal friends to the range. Let them shoot and handle the guns and see how fun the sport actually is. I would bet they will finish the day with less of a fear of weapons than they started it with, and that is the first step. Ultimately, we have to respect each others views, Republican or Democrat. Honestly, Washington is so corrupt, at the end of the day, I am not sure it even matters. Ok, it matters a little, but I digress. Now if I figure out how to make my liberal friends as afraid of taxes as they are of guns, I will get back with you guys and let you know the secret!