And I'm not proposing banning guns, I'm challenging the commonly-held narrative that guns "keep us safe." The statistics are unequivocal that they do not.
Gun owners are constantly on the defensive (except, of course, when their lobbying groups are being rather offensive), and constantly required to justify their existence, so of course they're going to go with something that sounds more noble than "but it's a cool hobby!"
It's probably been parroted so much that a lot of people who say it actually believe it.
Full disclosure: I've never owned a gun, but I do think they're pretty neat.
Full disclosure: I've never owned a really fast car, but I do think they're pretty neat.
That's pretty much an empty tautology, since any use of guns that doesn't provide this effect can be dismissed as "improper".