Reply #5: It's been turned into a moral panic issue

[krispos42]

It gets talked about so much, people start taking hard-core sides on the issue, and now it's gotten to the point that anti-gun people want ignorance-based, abstinance-based education about guns to their kids, some to the point of hysteria. And you know that when parents get all hysterical about something it makes kids really really curious about them.

Owning guns is increasingly seen by some as some form of mental illness and work hard to marginalize those that do.