Thinking is out of the question, here

Some people are just that dense.

They'll never get it through their thick skulls that what we in the gun-owning community generally advocate is moving toward an egalitarian ideal by means of keeping thuggery (sometimes organized thuggery) at bay, by means of resorting to the use of force, if necessary.

The fact that there's a gun involved should be immaterial to that thinking. It's just a tool, like that hammer mentioned.

I still don't know how people think otherwise.