OK it's been said before, but for your sake i'll say it again.... Guns don't kill people.... People kill people... Sucks but it's true, if it weren't guns then it would be knives, if it weren't knives, then it would be clubs, then next would be rocks. Either way people are violent, some are killers. Through out time well meaning people have sought a way to defend themselves against these types, and yes a gun is a pretty good way. Therein lies a problem, the killers also have guns. OK I have guns, many of them and maybe i'll have more as time goes on. I like to shoot guns at inanimate objects, it's fun. I lived in western C.O. for many years and did not hunt (except with a camera) until i saw my family hungry and deer starving along the highway, then I decided the deer had nothing to eat but we did, so i killed a deer or 100. Yes I killed many deer to feed my family and friends, I got quite good at it, then I left that area , moved somewhere, a place with a job, a place where I could buy food, food that had been killed for me, by someone else. There are deer here but in the last 20 years i have not hunted. I just buy meat at the store that someone else killed, because I'm not a killer. Guns have many uses; ie : law enforcement uses them to protect themselves and you against those killers amongst us. No disrespect intended but you could be killed by a killer at a distance with a Wrist Rocket---I was pretty good with that weapon at one time. But many of those with guns endeavor to keep you safe, as would I.