Although I find firearms a bit scary in practice, I've been around enough gun nuts to get where they're coming from, and also been around to hear voices from di

Although I find firearms a bit scary in practice, I've been around enough gun nuts to get where they're coming from, and also been around to hear voices from different countries with different rules...and I agree that there is a "gun pollution" problem here that deserves a different framing from the form that has been around in the US my whole life. If you have two guns, it's simple to keep them maintained, cleared and secured when not in use. If you have 250 guns, you are extremely likely to lose track of them. And when you lose track, accidents happen. That's nothing to do with crime or responsibility or freedoms or the design of the gun - it's there in the statistics that country by country, there are more accidential gun deaths when there are more guns, and bringing our market to saturation is not serving anyone.