Whenever I see that phraes "I don't like guns" I'm curious. To me, it's like saying, I don't like chain saws or snow blowers.

Some years ago it was in the news that two little boys were poking around in the attic of an old house, and they found a civil war rifle. Of course they fooled around with it and it went off killing one of them. That gun lay untouched for 100 years until some incompetent person misused it.I don't fear tools or weapons, I fear fools who don't know how to handle them.
Every Police officer carries a gun in plain view. Is it rational to be afraid of that holstered gun?
I have had a gun for many years. I carried it when I worked in law enforcement and no one is worse off because of it.