The author has it wrong.
Leftists don’t hate guns. They *love* guns. Totalitarian, collectivist regimes around the world killed somewhere between 100 and 200 million in the 20th Century alone (and that isn’t even counting the wars!!).
“They don’t hate guns, they hate you” is the correct verbiage.
*shovels and machetes are OK too, if guns are not available in sufficient quantities to get the job done