We all want to see as many people be as free as possible. Judging from the opinions on this forum, guns are basically used for 4 things, each which I will address in turn, in terms of freedoms. Benefits of guns 1. Collecting People who are strictly gun collectors are rather unlikely to turn to crime. If such an object is something other than, say, something designed to kill, it would be impossible in the American context to advocate that collecting it would be problematic in any way.
People collect all sorts of things, from stamps to coins to other, less common collections.
But the primary difference is, if a thief raids your stamp collection, he can't go out and kill somebody with it, or commit assault with a deadly stamp. No, not directly. But he could have prevented that death. Obviously, the answer is no. The issue of indirectness complicates the matter, but does not change the answer.