Comment: Here's the deal, leftists (and I say this as one of you)

If you'd been out there in the  hustings, ORGANIZING - that is, talking politics, at work, in your union if you have one (and organizing one if you don't), in your neighborhood, at your school, if you believe in God in your church/mosque/synagogue/temple etc, you'd have a broad social base and you wouldn't be isolated and worrying about personal self defense 

John Wayne pistolero idiocy IS NOT THE ANSWER - getting out and making up for lost time by organizing is.

Also (and I say this as one of the few leftists who's actually a trained marksman - I'm a former recreational shooter from a family of men who shoot, recreationally and in the armed forces of this country), think long and hard before you play with guns

Don't buy a gun unless you're prepared to shoot it at somebody who threatens you, your family or your home. 

Don't shoot anybody unless you are prepared to KILL THEM 

If you ain't ready for that - don't gun up!