Yes, not all gun enthusiasts have too much hair on their knuckles and thirst after the mass shooting news. The news media used to be about pleasing the advertisers but now it's about pleasing only ideological niches and conspiracy populism. This has led to today's separate camps who want to hear their side is always right...
that and my premise that racism is the active membership card for the Republican Party. Those ingrown and inbred hatreds are madness.

The emotion acted on to buy guns is not a love for safety. It is fear and anger.

My local experience is that I went to the same gas station, grocery store, and craft store that were all victimized by the same sniper. The McDonalds had a grandpa shot dead in the drive thru but that was by police and the victim was black.