I love Vin, but he’s assuming anti-gunners are anti-gun because they oppose violence. Wrong. They’re anti-gun because they oppose individual action and responsibility. That’s why, while you’ll find liberals and conservatives on both sides of an issue like abortion or gay rights, anti-gunners are almost universally liberal.
Allowing an individual to own a gun and defend himself, rather than have him fall in with the collective and rely on the State or laws, sickens them. That’s why they reserve their nastiest bile for people who defend themselves, pay for their own health care and create wealth independently, without government confiscating and transferring it.
Marx was wrong. The history of all hitherto existing society is NOT the history of class struggles. It’s the history of the Individual against the State, and the desire for so-called “gun free zones” crystallizes that.
Actually, the unspoken premise behind the gun-banners motives runs deeper and sicker than that. These moral midgets firmly believe that your life simply doesn't belong to you; that human beings are merely fungible assets whose terms of existence are dictated by the State. At the end of the day, you're a cow to be milked, a meat animal to be served up and sacrified to whatever whim suits them.
That's why they have such a visceral hatred of those of us who posess the means to deny them their premise, their vision of Utopia. No amount of reason, fact or rational argument will ever change them. Draw your own conclusions from that last statement - and act accordingly.