That may be true (ok, it is definitely true) but we have to start somewhere. I know a lot of people my age who grew up (like me!) in a house with guns and hunti

That may be true (ok, it is definitely true) but we have to start somewhere. I know a lot of people my age who grew up (like me!) in a house with guns and hunting that do not hunt or own guns. I don't even have anything against responsible gun owning and hunting. I am talking about getting people to understand that going beyond this (carrying a sidearm around all the time, keeping them in your car, thinking you can be Clint Eastwood when you get mugged, etc) all lead to people dying on purpose or accidentally at far higher rates than if we just didn't do this stuff. Gun OWNERSHIP is not the problem. Tons of households in countries all over the world have guns in them. You simply don't see the same level of gun death as in the US. It is because of their culture (e.g. compulsory military service - I'm not a fan but you will learn how to responsibly own and house a firearm and when you could reasonably expect it to be a useful tool vs something that will go off and kill your kid or be stolen and used in a crime later). Rant over, sorry, I get emotional when I think about this having been mugged at gun point with a pistol that was undoubtedly stolen from a car glove compartment or something during a routine car break in (assumptions, but you know what I mean). I survived the encounter because I didn't try to fumble in my bag for some gun I barely know how to use (in fact the first thing they did was grab my bag and frisk every inch of me). It was a crew, they were all business, and they got me. I walked away with my house keys and my empty wallet (note, they did NOT steal my ID). So yeah, that sort of thing has happened to me and I still, somehow, don't have fantasies about shooting a bunch of teenagers. Call me crazy.