>> They are of course dangerous and deadly when misused, but so can be a lot of other recreational tools. >Sorry to nitpick, but I strongly disapprove of this

>> They are of course dangerous and deadly when misused, but so can be a lot of other recreational tools. >Sorry to nitpick, but I strongly disapprove of this sentence because it hides the fact that guns are weapons, and generally speaking most "other recreational tools" are not. It is the nature of humans that we are good at repurpose things. Exactly the same can be said about about almost anything like cars/bikes/boats. Initial design was not for recreation and fun but we repurpose them and even start to build exactly for that. Te same goes for firearms - race guns exist and they are design from ground up to shoot paper and steel :)