“(Working class gun owners) are precisely the kind of people the Democratic Party says it exists to serve. Over and over, people I met on my trip would say, ‘I don’t get it. Democrats are the party of the working man. How can the Democrats do this?’ They feel so alienated that they won’t listen to the Democrats on climate change or health care or immigration or anything else. As a Democrat, it broke my heart to hear this over and over and over again. These are our guys. These are our people, and they hate us. We take this anti-gun position and we’re giving these people away, and we’re getting nothing in exchange. We are not making the country safer.” – Dan Baum in What Liberals Need to Understand About ‘Gun Guys’ [via theatlantic.com]