I am not anti-gun. I am not left wing. If someone wants to own a firearm that's fine with me. I just think we need to keep ham radio and gun ownership as two separate hobbies. If the anti-gunners, like some of my eastern relatives, starting associating ham radio and firearms ownership, it can't bode well for us as hams.
If anything they go hand in hand...
Most hunters I know of carry a handheld radio to communicate. Don't want to be dragging the days kill back to the truck and have a buddy pop off a round at/in you because he saw the antlers. If you all had radios, he could speak up asking where you are or you could say "100yds from the truck" so they know to watch for you. In my area the military reservation "strongly suggests" 2 way radios for hunting parties.
Most concealed carry people I know have or are interested in ham radio, because something comes along where one is needed, you can be sure the other will be needed too.
Most competition shooters I know (and I know a dozen or so) have the license or are interested in ham radio.
So almost every armed group has a vested interest in one way or another to be licensed hams, and most licensed hams SHOULD have a vested interest in firearms. Your argument falls along the lines of these liberals who think there is no need for the 2nd Amendment, but are completely ignorant of the fact that if the 2nd falls, the rest fall shortly after. The reason we have the right to bear arms, is because of the time when they try to come and say we do not.