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Did you just not read the first and second paragraph?
I guess you could take it as that but also I feel like it is a legitimate reason to own a gun. Especially because I personally know people that do actually hunt as a way to put food on the table. Being vegetarian is perfectly valid and a good choice and everything but also shouldn't be forced on everyone. And honestly hunting is more ethical than buying meat from the grocery store or whatever, and much more of the animal gets used if you do it right.
But even if you completely disregard hunting, what about target shooting for sport?
Not exclusively to survive, but to allow their family to have a cheap protein source, and they probably would financially struggle even more if they couldn't hunt.
Animals die all the time to provide food for other creatures, and I would rather the animal have a good life out in the wilderness doing whatever it wants and then being quickly and painlessly killed than grown on a farm with little freedom for a couple years and then butchered. Also, then you can pay the proper respects to the animal for it's flesh and you have to be the one to kill it not abstracting that away by buying it in a store. I understand not thinking any creature deserves to die but there are levels of nuance and levels of how ethical meat is to consume beyond that.
Also, yeah a football probably could kill someone if you kicked it at their head hard enough and they didn't have a helmet. A baseball definitely could if thrown by a professional pitcher. Not sure what relevance that has
Fear seems like a legitimate reason to me. Plenty of things to be fearful of out there.