Ma'am, every law-abiding gun owner could be cherubic choir boys, models of safety, etc., and they would still come for our guns inch by inch until they take all 63,360 inches. Don't kid yourself.
^this. Believing otherwise just plays into their hands and illustrates the effectiveness of their brainwashing.
“Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.” – Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US Abolitionist Preacher