Guns into Garden Tools

My belief is that making it socially unacceptable to use weapons for entertainment will, in the long run, save many more lives than changing gun laws.  (By “entertainment” I mean shooting for the hell of it.  I regard hunting as a serious endeavor, not light entertainment.)  I used to shoot when I was a teenager decades ago. I enjoyed it. There was a zen to it – control your muscles, control your breathing. Picking up a rifle also seemed a bit like having a wild carnivore eat out of your hand. There was danger and the potential for things to go badly wrong but I had it under control.  There was a rush in that. Much as I enjoyed shooting then though, I’m done.  We need to renounce shooting as recreation.  Guns are not toys for grown-ups. They’re machines designed to kill.