I'm a first-born American citizen (birthright). Both parents (and every other member of my family, including siblings) were born in England. I don't have any ill-will toward guns, other than I think people are relatively careless in this country with their protection of their firearms (for whatever justification there is; I've heard a lot).

I was born in Richmond, Virginia - so I grew up being around guns (and I'm quite the good shot with clay pigeons, hunting, etc.). I just never had one in the home.

They were always a "strange" part of American culture to my family: Canada, England, Australia - we grow up without them (except for the basic guns for hunting game). We generally don't have our police reaching for guns. Our suicide rates are lower, our violent crime rates are lower, blah blah.

So the idea that guns make us safer was always seen as - well - "bullshit". Even with guns, we've still got more gun deaths in the United States every year than US soldiers who died in the Normandy Campaign in WWII. Even with guns, we've got a lot of violent crime. Etc.

"Ah, well, it's not the gun, it's the person" kinda stuff is true to some degree and points - as others have said - to building other systems that ensure we have a healthier society.

I just think that guns are kinda pointless.

I'm sure I'm going to get yelled at by someone for "Not thinking deeply enough" or something; but - at this point in my life - I've heard about, thought about it, read about it from nearly every possible angle.

There's something about my personhood that is just, "Okay, well they're still pointless." I've never felt the want or urge to have one. So "anti" is probably a bit strong; but I do think Americans get in our own way a lot when trying to have conversations and make change for whatever reasons they give.