[ex-snook]

Reasons for using a gun:
1] shoot animals
2] shoot muggers
3] shoot government agents

The first two are not questioned. It’s the third that is questioned in this age as impractical or sloping toward a banana republic instead of a more perfect democracy.

[Digger]

Reasons for using a gun: 1] shoot animals 2] shoot muggers 3] shoot government agents

Priority takes the reversal order.