Armed lunatics! Red State on Saturday, November 15. 2025 published an article headlined, “New Surge in Gun Ownership Among the Left: Good or Bad?”
The left are arming up, and while that may cause some consternation among some, it may well prove to be very good for the American Second Amendment community. The left, including the LGBTQ+ community, has the same rights under the Second Amendment as the rest of us, and having them exercise those rights may just do them some good.
For decades, the image of gun ownership in America was white, rural and Republican, but that’s been changing, according to gun clubs, trainers, Second Amendment advocates and academic researchers.
They say more liberals, people of color and LGBTQ folks have been buying guns for years and particularly since Trump’s reelection in 2024. This story was based on more than 30 interviews. David Phillips is on the training team of the Liberal Gun Club, which has chapters in more than 30 states and provides a haven for liberals to train and learn about guns. He says club membership has grown from 2,700 in November to 4,500 today. Requests for training, he says, have quintupled.
That’s a good thing. As long as these people are law-abiding citizens, this is their right, and they seem to be going about things the right way: Legal purchase, training, you know, responsible gun ownership.
Of course, some of their stated reasons for this are a little loony.
“The concern is about the supporters of the right-wing who feel that they have been given permission to run roughshod at least, if not commit outright violence against people they don’t like,” Phillips says.
“As a fighter for our Second Amendment right my answer is that sure, the Second Amendment protects everyones right to bear arms.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas. “Even Leftists have that right. That being said, with the Left’s written ‘Red Flag’ laws, that would disqualify most of them from being allowed to carry, or even be around firearms. They claim the Red Flag laws were put in place to keep American citizens safe from the mentally ill, the criminal, and the violent people of America. By looking at their own actions, which include violence, whether committed by or endorsed by Leftists that created this law, most Leftists wouldn’t be ‘fit’ to carry the ammo, let alone the firearm the ammo was for. So yes, they have the right to be considered ‘fit’ to carry, but only by passing the guidelines they created. We surely wouldn’t want the mentally ill, the criminal, and the violent to be able to trade in their rocks, bricks and molotov cocktails for firearms would we?”
