So Jim...bad parents shouldn't have guns, then? Not that I'd advocate it, but it does seem to be the next logical step to what you're saying....

Shad, who grew up where most people (at least in the country, if not in town), had guns, but nobody was all weird and Militia-y and intruders-are-in-every-shadow-y about it. They just had them to hunt and to protect their livestock.