I can see that. I've never understood why 2A rights isn't a corner Stone of liberalism. My only guess is that they feel like they have more political power, however as that changes we see them become bigger fans of bearing arms.
I can't understand it either. It certainly should be. What better way to ensure equality? That's why I absolutely hate it when gun owners use democrats as an example of the enemy. Are most of them now? Yes. Should they be? No. Which groups of people stand the most to gain from a way to repel violence right now?
Women (which seem to be squarely in the dems camp)
Ethnic minorities (Dems camp)
LGBT (squarely in dems camp)
The human right to not be a victim of violence shouldn't be a political issue, but it's been made into one by anti-gunners that sense the direction the tide is turning. "Gun culture" used to be all about hunting, and that's been part of the republican base, but that has changed thanks to video games and more interesting shooting sports.
However, we keep politicizing firearms and our rights to our own detriment.
This is the root of why I hate ad campaigns like the one by Spikes. They're simply promoting conflict.
How great would it be if our rights weren't tied to the amount of power wielded by a single political party, but protected completed by our enumerated rights that we assumed as soon as we were born? Can you even imagine how great that would be for our rights? We won't let it happen though. Humans thrive on conflict, we simply won't allow ourselves to live that freely.