[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by Hijinx

A lot of the people who are into guns usually come from families with a gun culture. It is ingrained into them early and they don't see anything wrong with it and get very defensive about outside ideas on the subject. They deny any facts that don't fall inline with what they want to believe. It is quite like religion or a cult.

Also gun people tend to be people who can't deal with fear as well.