If you want to be a sport shooter you should have to go to the range and borrow a gun that the range owns. It's a pretty stupid sport. In fact it may be the dumbest sport on the face of the planet.
It's as stupid as bowling in rented shoes, skiing on rented skis, golfing with rented clubs. They all suck.
What's your point?
I don't have a problem with hunters or farmers or a dude living in the mountains with cougars and bears who needs a rifle. Other than that the people who own guns are typically low-IQ morons, wannabe tough guys, and/or gang bangers and drug dealers and I don't care about their gun rights.
That hasn't been my experience, I don't think you know much about gun owners, you have just made up your mind.