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Again, I agree with much of what you say. As I have said, I believe my discomfort comes from the ease and power a gun gives the user. A martial artist needs serious training to be able to kill an opponent consistently, and the effort required is much greater than the simple pulling of a trigger.
A child cannot beat an adult to death, I think. A child can beat other children to death - of that I have no doubt, and just as casually as a street mugger, certainly.
But nothing is quite like a gun. My fists cannot kill with a crook of a finger. My sword comes close, certainly, but there still exists a rather large gap in the training and effort required to kill with a sword than with a gun.
Not everyone can pick up a sword and go out and kill whoever they want. But almost anyone can pick up a gun and radically alter someone's reality.
In short, it's a matter of degree.
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