[hga]

Address the perceived necessity for weapons rather than the weapons themselves.

But how can you ever do that?

No matter how much the above prescriptions change the facts on the ground, there will still be criminals and mentally ill people who attack others. And you'll never change what's historically the biggest killer of all, the threat of governments, most especially including your own as the last century's history wrote in blood.

So I don't think you'll ever change my perception that I need weapons.

(I also "need" "weapons" to target shoot, but that gets a little complicated.)