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Children should be taught to fear guns until they are old enough to be taught to responsibly handle them (even if they never willingly do so).

The basic, safe handling of a firearm is a life skill. When the population was largely rural it was simply passed down like changing a tire or watering plants. Lack of utility in daily life for urbanites has made this (and many other) life skills into strange or secret knowledge for them. This ignorance, when coupled with profound arrogance, produces the demonstrably false statement issued by Amy.

My favorite counter to people who blindly quote the Kellerman "a gun in the home is 3x more likely to kill a resident of the house than an intruder" is to ask if they keep a rifle or shotgun, rent a home/apartment, or consume any amount of alcohol. According to that one study, renting or consuming ANY alcohol raises your odds of being a homicide victim more than owning a pistol. A rifle or shotgun in the home actually reduces one's odds of becoming a victim of homicide in the home.

But Kellerman's study was horribly done. The best guess based upon his own data and government data suggests that about 4.5% of homicides committed in homes were committed with guns kept in the home.

Hoplophobia is a real thing.