But JFK was a democrat which back then meant more classical liberalism as opposed to leftism and other things that we may see today. I'm not sure how many democrats in the past would consider attempting to modify and restrict the second amendment in the name of alleged safety but we can see that leftism has been attempting to push democrats that direction for decades now, gradually, inch by inch, day by day, to push them farther and farther left, as in extreme left, radically left. In some ways, people should probably be somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum.