Maybe it's because we're from New York. The non wildnerness New York. If guns are your thing, that's fine. Not for me!
Maybe. There are lots of deer on Long Island but out east in Suffolk county. The only meat hunting that I know of is the fish market in Freeport where the ladies go to find bargains.
If people are afraid of guns, that's all right with me. If they are afraid of guns AND they try to mess with my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms that's NOT all right with me.
I submit that if you were around firearms and got familiar with them you would not fear them. A gun is not going to jump off a table or out of a holster all by itself and start shooting. You were probably unfamiliar with a steak knife at one time but I'll bet you eventually got proficient with that implement. A firearm is an implement that requires a little education to use properly, nothing more.
"Maybe it's because we're from New York. The non wildnerness New York. If guns are your thing, that's fine. Not for me!"
Well, growing up in NYC would not create much of a feel for what hunting is about. Hunting is about space, and you don't comprehend space too well.