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it’s because guns are literally weapons

everything is a weapon in the right/wrong hands. in my experience, even with my fiance, they're scare of guns because they don't know how they work. now, she still doesn't like them, but now that we've at least gone shooting and she knows how they work, they can't magically just fire by being bumped or dropped (looking at you Taurus), she can at least use one if she really really needed to.

people are afraid of what they don't understand, plain and simple. look at first time drivers, white knuckling the steering wheel. once they get acclimated, they become better and the fear fades. and many people may go their whole life without ever seeing a gun in real life, but im in the usa and firearms are unfortunately here to stay.

I'm not saying she has to be become a gun expert and know how to tear it down and clean it, but having a better knowledge of how it works alleviates a lot of the fear people have about firearms.

it’s desensitisation to people literally carrying weapons around.

never said anything about people carrying them, i don't carry mine anymore even though i do have my ccw. people are also afraid of dogs if they've never been around dogs. and again, you don't have to like or choose to be around dogs, but knowing that not every dog will bite or attack you just because they're within arms reach is already a step in the right direction.

Pretty much everyone understands perfectly well what a gun is and what it does

gonna have to disagree here, movies are not realistic and they definitely create a lot of the fear people have towards them.

“Gun safety” is a poor argument when objectively the safest thing is to just not be around guns.

sometimes this isnt a choice, and burying your head in the sand is the worst thing you can do.