Welcome to the Community, @Barry37! We know that firearms owners and self-defense advocates come from every walk of life and are glad to have them here!
There is a thread in here about the newly proposed legislation that you might find interesting: Here it comes! (Proposed gun legislation)
IMO, the majority of people are pretty middle of the road and are all doing their best to protect our rights. We differ on some topics, but the extremes on either side are the ones who are the loudest and drowning out the rest of us. 
~Dawn
I’ll remind everyone that we don’t all have to agree, but we’re all here to have productive conversations even on topics we don’t agree on. We can always learn from other viewpoints (plus the world would be pretty boring if we all agreed on everything all of the time).