Absolutely not. I, for instance, am not anti gun.
Lemme tell you, though, there's an element to this I haven't yet seen discussed--the community where the school operates. Yesterday we had a "gun scare" at my school, an excellent middle school in a small town known throughout the region for excellent public schools. The fire alarms were being repaired, and the students in one class heard "fire alarm" over the resource officer's radio. Someone became frightened: "Did they just say firearm?!?"
Kids being kids, rumors swirled. Eventually it got to the point that the kids had an elaborate rumor all worked out. In it, one of the children had a gun in his locker or something and had made threats to shoot up the school at a specific time and place that day. The rumor didn't say who, so one of the little geniuses decided it was his chance to get famous and took credit. Not smart.
We had to hold a schoolwide meeting and send letters home to the parents to reassure them that the school is safe. We had a highly publicized (inaccurately) food fight not long ago and the principal really got raked over the coals. She wasn't taking any chances.
Some of this may have been her personal panic factor, but I guarantee more of it was CYA. She's had her experience with bad publicity and has no interest in repeating it. And in this "village" she's absolutely right that there would be shrieking panic from the soccer moms.
OTOH, the other day I was talking to a lady who was a substitute for the special-ed teacher with whom I normally work. Someone made the comment that one of our students might be moving back to Texas. "I don't blame him--I'd move back to Texas, too, if I could, and I'm not even from there."
This lady, who had talked about nothing but her children and craft projects all day, asked me why. I didn't want to scare her off before we could have a productive conversation, so I was a little vague. "Oh, there are lots of states I rather live in--Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, etc."
Well, she asked, why would I want to move to Indiana?
"Oh, you know, they just don't have all the silly laws we have here. Illinois is full of laws that start out Thou Shalt Not--taxes, gun control, all kinds of stuff."
That's when she floored me. "What about CCW?" she asked. "I'd love to move to a state with a CCW law. Is Indiana pretty good?"
Once again the stereotype had blinded our hero and left him vulnerable to shock. We ended up having a good conversation about CCW, gun safety, etc. She likes to shoot and would like to CCW, but her husband grew up anti-gun and she's afraid to own guns with him in the house. She doesn't think he'd be safe enough. For no very good reason, I thought that was really cool.