O the general topic I have found introducing Liberal-leaning folks to firearms can be one of the most powerful tools to change their way of thinking.
Not usually right away but the self-reliance firearms imply can definitely get them to thinking.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
