You're welcome. While you're buying into propaganda, look up those tobacco related deaths I mentioned; a staggering 8,000,000 (eight million) people die per year and you'll discover that nearly half of them don't smoke. So that shoots (no pun) your "they are choosing that for themselves" theory down. But media won't report that.

Also, you said:

Every other person knows someone who has been shot.

False—My wife is sitting across from me as I write this, neither of us know someone who's been shot.

The fear is absolutely real, I agree with you. We can thank you, them, Fox noose and everyone else for not doing something like scaring everyone into stopping smoking or big pharma or drunk drivers. Philip Morris, Kaiser Permanente, Jack Daniels etcetera won't stand for it. Considering we're one of the last countries with gun rights, I'm not surprised. Imagine if everyone was armed in Ukraine.

I have a nice collection of guns, they've not one time killed somebody. They can't—fact. They're incapable of pulling their own trigger.

Thanks for hearing me out and please don't take this personally. As much as I respect your freedom of speech and understand we're within our humanly rights to differ in opinion, I feel obligated to say what I think when I read anti-firearm material like you've posted.

Cheers.