>I fail to see a purpose for guns apart from killing, You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent [sic] when your life is in danger,

>I fail to see a purpose for guns apart from killing, You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent [sic] when your life is in danger, you can use guns for hunting. Of these three things you listed, two of them are killing. A gun wouldn't be useful as a deterrent if the threat of its application wasn't present—you can't brandish a feather and get the same effect because a feather offers no threat and does not have a reputation of lethal harm. And hunting is literally killing, although it may have a legit purpose, such as sustenance.