“These guns are related to the impulse to create, not the impulse to kill.”
HIDDEN PREMISE ALERT!!!
Notice that the assumption is that those who like guns have “an impulse to kill”.
Actually, the “impulse” is that of DEFENSE OF SELF AND OTHERS. This could be the two-fold root of the left’s general hatred of firearms.
I’ve come to understand that there are two “levels” of leftism. Those who want to feel good about themselves and those who want to control others. The former group probably have the assumption that “guns kill” instead of “guns defend”.
The latter group would understand the concept of “guns defend”, and don’t want you to have the ability to defend yourself FROM THEM.
Since I had two older brothers and am the mother to two sons, I have long believed that if I could peek in on a little boy at the dawn of creation he would be making two kinds of toys. One would be a stick which he pushed along the floor of the jungle while making noises like an internal composition engine. The other would be a stick which he would point at another little boy and say “bang.” Technology then had to catch up with the mind.
Actually, I think you're jumping a little too much to the conclusion; he's saying “These guns are not 'the impulse to kill'” just as you are saying that this is not related to an impulse to kill.
IOW, he's addressing the same premise as you are. Though he's looking at it from the child's perspective wherein the goal is play/fun (creation via imagination); let's be honest, the LEGO-guns have nothing to do with an impulse to defend self and others either. (I.E. The child "protector" won't use the LEGO-gun to keep someone from being beat up, he'll use a stick, fists, a rock or something that he can use as a REAL [not imaginary] weapon.)