"all guns are so obviously potential death inflictors"

As are ALL motor vehicles, and all medications, and all knives, and all stones. Even golf clubs and baseball bats have been know to kill- so the potential is certainly there as well

And of course those evils such as gasoline ( used in napalm) and nuclear power ( radiation and bombs!)

And more people die each year due to H2O than anything else.


You have not established that the ONLY purpose of guns is murder- there are JUSTIFIED reasons for shooting people (stopping criminals), uses such as hunting ( for food or safety) target shooting-(an Olympic sport, unlike guitar playing), collecting and historical research.