Yeah, guns are fun. So is skydiving. We understand that those things and activities are dangerous.
I haven't handed my guns to many people in my life; but, when I have, even if I knew the person knew guns, I went through a safety lecture and demonstrated how to check the gun and how to use it.
It's really not too hard:
Treat every gun as if it's loaded.
Don't point the gun at anything that you're not prepared to destroy.
Establish your target before firing and know what's behind your target.
Don't touch the trigger until you're ready to shoot.
Four actually has some caveats with my revolver being that, after loading, you need to pull the trigger in order to reset the hammer. This is why I was trying to give Alec Baldwin some benefit of the doubt before he fucked himself by his own words.
Most people who have guns know that they're dangerous. I probably still have a leap in blood pressure wherever I fire my guns.
The people who make mistakes are the people who don't like guns.
The people who commit murders with guns are generally people who haven't been around guns all that often. They're people who know so little about guns that they think that AR-15s are killing machines.
Most of us who have guns know that they're not toys. We respect them. We only let people who understand that they're dangerous hold them or practice with them. We've also demonstrated, if you've done the research, that we're doing it without the government getting involved.