Guns can be good, clean fun. They beat spears for hunting, although the former seems more sporting. When a gun owner wraps himself in hero fantasies, though, that's where the fun, and sanity, ends. Such fantasies usually come with a whole bushel of canned popular wisdom, catchy phrases, mangled historical analogies, made up or misinterpreted 'study results' - all just good old fashioned bullshit, and all easily debunked within about a minute.
Why? Hey, guns are a big business; one with plenty of good old fashioned, God and Country marketing to keep its customers laying down their credit cards. A lot of industries have tried to wrap themselves in the flag - "Like a rock!", American Insurance, Pepsi's choice of colors, but none has been as remotely successful as the gun industry in intertwining its business interests with 'Basic American Values '.