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I have no problem with firearms, but I can understand those who do.

While some like to paint this as a right-left issue, I find it more an rural-urban divide (admittedly that has a lot of overlap with right-left).

If you live in a rural area, where you have a handful of neighbors within walking distance, where the police may take 30 minutes to get to you, where hunting is a cultural tradition, it's easy to see why you would see guns as a good thing.

If you live in a city, with a cop on the street corner, a higher crime rate, and living in an apartment building cramed with hundreds of people, at least some of whom (statistically speaking) have a short temper and a tenuous grasp on reality, it's easy to understand why you would be suspicious of a person with a firearm.