> The so called "assault weapons" in question are semi-automatic firearms, i.e. they fire one round per pull of the trigger, like many standard hunting rifles...
...you are talking at odds with what Curtis actually said, which was this:
>> He said he was "cut down with a conventional weapon, a .38 handgun," but "had it been an assault weapon -- not just single-shot capacity but automatic ability -- I would be ripped limb from limb and be six feet under."
You are talking about semi-automatic firearms, and in this case he was talking about automatic submachine-guns.
For the record, there are many Guardian Angels who are pro-Second Amendment, some of them are very senior. One of them trained me to be a Guardian Angel.
If Curtis were truly a gun-grabbing liberal, surely he would use his influential organization to further his own gun-grabbing agenda, no? It would be easy enough to do. Yet interestingly he hasn't. You yourself said:
> The left absolutely hates the Second Amendment and our Founding Fathers... The left just wants control. They can't get that when a free people are armed.
As I said, I do not know Curti Sliwa's personal view on the Second Amendment: he has not seen fit to share that with me. Neither has he seen fit to use his influential multiple-award-winning community-based Guardian Angels organization to advance a "gun-grabbing" agenda, as a Liberal would do (a la ACORN?). This tells me, in no uncertain terms, that he is neither a Liberal nor a typical "gun-grabber".
Do you see any flaws with that?
In Sliwa's gift for self promotion, he was letting himself be used by the gun grabbers for their attempt to ban "assault weapons" in the early 1990s. In that and some other instances such as his promoting Giuliani before Giuliani had his conversion to the benefits of the Second Amendment during his campaign for the GOP nomination in 2008, Sliwa was being a "useful idiot."
Anyone who wants to shackle Second Amendment rights gets my radar going.