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It is the culture.

Most of those who are the most rabidly anti-gun were raised in the inner-city or the suburbs, many without a father in the home. They never saw their father with a hunting rifle, or shotgun, or a pistol... they were never educated on their use, safety, benefits, none of it. They were never taught that a gun could be a tool for recreation, preservation, they were not taught to understand and respect firearms.

Add to it that they only see guns being used for violence on TV and in the news, they only see the bad that guns do. Coupled with the above, it is impossible for them to see how anyone except for people who wish to do violence would need a gun. Add to it the animal rights / anti-hunting groups that are the most active in the suburban and urban areas that, again, lack understanding, and they cannot even fathom lawful hunting as a viable reason to own a gun... so all that they are left with is violence, evil, penis enhancement, and propaganda images of inbred, slobbering right wingers who only have guns to shoot at bambi, the government, and black people... all three of which are "special snowflakes" according to the left.

This is also why it is darn near impossible to talk sense into them. They did not reason themselves into their beliefs, so you cannot reason them out of them.