I saw a few of these bumper stickers today on actual vehicles in my neighborhood.
Just to give you a few examples of how widespread the sentiment is.
There are more. Many many many more versions.
So, WHY is it do you think that WE are less than persuaded when YOU
You can avoid it easily. Don't use your gun INSTEAD of a cell phone or an alarm system or pepper spray or a stun gun or surveillance equipment or any of the many other possibilities INSTEAD of gun violence.
And don't exalt that gun culture of violence by advocating or yourself using one of these, or anything like it. It is as much your lack of condemnation as it is your glorying in this kind of violence which makes your assurances so very unconvincing. Gun culture: long on guns, short on culture.