Being a liberal allows a person to hold two mutually exclusive beliefs and not acknowledge the conflict.
The Sullivan Act, passed in 1911, was the nation’s first statewide gun control law. It required New Yorkers who possessed firearms small enough to be concealed to ask local cops—who could deny the request not just to “irresponsible persons” but to anyone, and for any reason, they liked—for a license.
David Harsanyi, The Federalist.
On the one hand liberals want to defund the police because they are oppressors. Any police use of force against a minority is automatically suspect. On the other hand, police should be allowed to determine who may possess a firearm and confiscate firearms from people they deem unfit.
