Just what in the world is a west coast, liberal, agnostic, tree hugging, hipster doing hanging around with a bunch of conservative, red state, Christian gun nuts?

Politics is an odd animal, where reasonable people can often disagree. There are few absolutes when it comes to human social interactions. Killing, for example, is not an absolute crime, when one factors in things like "self-defense", or "ending someone's pain and suffering when death is inevitable", or, as is the case with things like traffic deaths, "statistical inevitabilities" (Is it a crime to design a two lane highway, where costs oftentimes outweigh head-on consequences?) The game is a shady one. And humans, forced into its structure, have no choice but to play along.