Okay, let’s take this in context. As I sit typing this I have a gun. Within 20 feet are about two dozen other guns, maybe more, I need to count. I like guns, I like shooting, I make my living teaching folks to shoot.
Regardless of all that, and your experiences, the fact is that guns make killing more efficient. You think Adam Lanza could have killed a whole class of kindergartners without a gun? Harris and Klebold? Any of the mass shooters?
Regardless of whether we have guns or not, folks will always try to kill other folks and often they will succeed in their efforts. The point is that the numbers would be less without firearms.
So big deal, we are a nation of gun owners, we will always be a nation of gun owners. That genie is out of the bottle, we aren’t going back in time. More restrictive gun control is not the answer. As I said, freedom is not without risk.
More later, I’m going to coffee, with a gun.