It’s crab mentality - they don’t have a gun or the ability to use one so rather than correct that they want to make everyone equally disadvantaged.
The Leftist activist thinks it likely that he might be IN the violent mob which the middle-class gun owner may need to fire upon in order to protect his family and property.
Think about Antifa, and their reluctance to engage in violence except when the local police are told to stand down by local Democrat politicians.
BIG>BINGO! THAt is the essence of perspective for the entire democrap party, and sadly, the voters who keep sending the dead-soul D devils back to Congress.
The agenda of the democrap party going back to at least Lyndon Johnson has been to bring society down to a common level. not make pursuit of excellence a reality in America. Sadly, the Republicants have eagerly enabled that evil.