Then it's perfectly fine with you if everyone runs around with lever action 30-30's, right?

If they are running around in properly designated areas during hunting season, yes.

I like guns but I don't hunt.

There are two reasons for this.

1) Deer have such big brown eyes.

2) During hunting season, there are more crazy people with guns in the Vermont woods than even in New York City.

I would shoot an animal if I were really hungry and the grocery stores were out of food, or I were out of money but still had ammo, or I were just way out in the woods with no food. I would shoot a person if he/she were trying to do me, or some other person, serious bodily harm and there were no cop around (and there's never a cop around unless you drive over the speed limit or try to hold up a donut shop). Or if the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced they were suspending the Constitution due to some emergency or other, and American civilians had to fight their own military (which is what the framers of the Constitution really had in mind). Otherwise, I'll stick to tin cans and paper targets.

Peter.