Some habits are impossible to kick. You want to disarm me, come and do it the way you would have had to 45 years ago.
You grow up in late adolescence being armed and ready to defend, you never are willing to give that up.
Nothing gives a person a greater sense of responsibility; or a greater reverence for life, than knowing that you have close at hand, the tools and ability to utterly destroy that life.
I have been armed since 12 years old; in 1968 I was given a military upgrade in arms and ability, in 1973 I relinquished that up grade and went back to the arms I carried as a child, with the occasional legal upgrade I purchased as an adult.
I will not surrender willingly those arms or abilities I worked so hard to earn.
I have never killed anyone or anything I did not intend to kill; for either defense, or to put food on the table.