Really though, I dislike all weapons, especially ranged ones. It's "easy" to kill someone when all you have to do is pull a trigger. Try a knife or axe, few people would be able to withstand the psychological trauma of close combat fighting.
I do appreciate weapons when it comes to hunting though.
As the owner of multiple guns, I do agree that there is some merit to your viewpoint. However, I don't think that guns can simply be thrown into "hunting" and "killing people" categories, it goes very much beyond that. When I think of guns, I don't think of killing anything, and I don't think that most other people do. Rather, I think of the long afternoons spent shooting empty coke cans in the backyard with my dad and brother, or the marksmanship contests I participated in as a kid--the point being, guns don't merely exist to kill things. Granted, that was the intended purpose of their very conception, but you also aren't supposed to put q-tips in your ears. Application has evolved beyond conception, and for many people, guns don't necessarily represent a weapon, but a tool of security, or patriotism, or bonding, or a plethora of other not-so-violent things.
It's true that most people can't handle the psychological trauma of close combat fighting. However, people set out with the pre-disposed intention of killing, be it a single homicide or a mass murder, generally aren't in the healthiest of psychological states anyway, and that trauma becomes less of a big deal.
Don't take any of this as some sort of attack against you, I have the utmost respect for your point of view, but I felt that it was worth contributing mine.
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