I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them. That makes me think they are in some sort of death cult. That they found socially acceptable way to love violence.
I would still get one for safety but it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.
They can serve a good purpose but they are fundamentally grim tools of pain and suffering. They shouldn’t be celebrated and glorified in their own right, that is sick. They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.
The only argument you can make that will demonstrate your point is that you, yourself, would shoot me if given the opportunity.
I trust that you won’t do that. I trust that I don’t need to deprive you of firearms, because you are not a psychopath.
Feel free to disabuse me of that notion.