Minnesota Liberal Also Gun Rights Advocate

By Tom Knighton

Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that “liberal” isn’t always synonymous with “gun grabber.” It shouldn’t be that hard, at least for me, but it is. After all, look who is typically coming after our guns? It’s not the libertarians or the conservatives. It’s liberals, right?

However, the Minnesota Star Tribune has a profile of a woman who is both a pro-gun activist and a liberal.

Here’s how Sarah Cade used to think of American gun owners: “old, fat, white guys, and they’re all racists and they hate everyone.”

Of course, that was before she got a gun.

Cade is young, biracial and passionately liberal. She’s also become a self-described gun nut and a staunch defender of gun ownership.

But she wants to be nice about it.

“I have a talent for disagreeing with people without being a jerk about it,” she said. “I don’t like hostility in any of my interactions. I’m very nonconfrontational.”

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She writes pro-gun op-ed articles and testifies at legislative hearings. She lobbies her legislator, gets quoted in newspaper articles and interviewed on podcasts. She debates people online, speaks at public forums and appears in gun rights advocacy videos.

In many ways, she …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms