Originally Posted by Tyrone
Originally Posted by Bristoe
https://www.thedailybeast.com/seattles-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-chaz-has-armed-guards

Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (PSJBGC)—a leftist community defense and firearms education organization that gained a spate of notoriety last year when a former member, Willem van Spronsen, set fire to an ICE parking lot—have been a constant presence. The club is often asked to provide security for protests and rallies around the Seattle area, and while their involvement in CHAZ is structured more loosely, the presence of armed civilians has raised a few eyebrows.

Leftist gun clubs have been on the rise, and organizations like the Socialist Rifle Association—of which, full disclosure, I am a member—Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club, and other chapters of the John Brown Gun Club have successfully introduced the issue of gun rights and firearms education into the broader leftist discourse. In Seattle, John Brown members have generally been showing up on an individual basis, rather than as part of a coordinated campaign. But as Nick—the group’s towering spokesperson, who like other members requested his full name be withheld given law enforcement’s fixation on left-wing activists—told The Daily Beast, the group was also tapped to provide a security escort for “some very prominent black voices who were doing speeches here at the Autonomous Zone” following the events of last Sunday evening.
There seems to be a misconception among consrevative gun owners that if you teach someone to shoot, you'll have turned them into a conservative. Your quote goes to show how mistaken that is. Personally, I refuse to train liberals.


Being ex military doesn't necessarily make one a conservative, either.

I'd guess that there's a lot of leftists/communists out there these days with a military background. The US has been sending young men into combat for the past 2 decades straight.

Lots of young men in America have been in combat.

It's not realistic to think that all of them are going to be Trump supporting conservatives.