Yes, Virginia, There Is a Liberal Gun Club

By Bob Owens

Shooting is an incredibly popular activity, and attracts people from all walks of life, for all sorts of reasons. Though once thought of as an activity practiced in rural areas, and passed down from father to son, interest in firearms is “booming”around the country, with young, urban, and female shooters being the fastest growing demographics.

With so much diversity in age, race, geography, and interests, is there any surprise that there are gun lovers who aren’t conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, or independents?

The Liberal Gun Club is a group for people who like firearms — and who also happen to like, or at least not hate, liberal values. And as of Gardner’s appointment as the group’s executive director last fall, it is officially headquartered in Newton.

Gardner, a resident of Newton Upper Falls for nearly two decades, said he liked schools, roads, safety nets and, in at least every election so far, Democrats.

“But I spent all my life in the Midwest growing up,” he said. “I spent my entire summers on a farm in southeast Ohio. Hand me a rifle, go walk in the field, you see a groundhog you’re supposed to shoot it.”

Gardner happens to be a liberal and he happens …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms