Anti-gunners are violent. Pro-gunners train to apply violence. There is a difference. Anti-gunners post threats online when someone puts up a joke image of a gun sitting on the ground in front of a door. Anti-gunners think violating the privacy of people with gun permits and compromising the safety of police and security and prison guards to embarrass and harass people who own firearms is perfectly ethical and moral. Anti-gunners think that taking away the rights of other people will somehow make them less afraid themselves. Most pro-gunners are seriously gentle and polite people who just happen to acknowledge that the world that liberals *think* they live in with the unicorns and pagasoi and magic leprechauns doesn’t exist. Pro-gunners understand that if you want peace you have to prepare for war. Pro-gunners live where coyotes will eat your pets and livestock, wolves still attack people if given the chance, and mountain lions and bears aren’t always only seen at the zoo. For anti-gunners the picture of the mule kicking the mountain lion to death is something they saw on their computer screen. Pro-gunners see that and smell it and if they are slow or unlucky they might feel the claws and teeth. Pro-gunners live where alligators still kill people.
Anti-gunners hear about gun deaths on the news from their gated communities with armed guards or their high rise apartment with armed security at the door. Pro-gunners know what it feels like to have a bullet shatter on a brick wall and spray them with fragments when they are trying to get away from that crackhead with the stolen handgun who wants the money they simply don’t have. (because they obeyed the law and disarmed themselves when installing computer equipment in a “gun free zone” that wasn’t….entirely- they couldn’t return fire)