Guns, Rights, & Socialism
There are people who've been indoctrinated into the "world is dangerous and we will take care of you" mindset. They frighten easily, believe that taxation will save them, and don't like guns because [trite socialist propaganda here].
They're just people. They can experience new things, acquire new knowledge, learn, change, and realize things. Those are the ones you take shooting.
There are other people who fully believe in socialist utopia, even if it kills us. Mankind is the problem. People can't be trusted. Only an enlightened few (which membership they claim) can truly be allowed to run things. Everyone else is a peasant. It is the intellectual who shall rule. It is only by intellect that Man can be saved (the portion worth saving, that is).
While some sort of, er, experience with a gun might be good for them, they cling to their fixed ideas, and conversion really is only attained through a "catastrophic enlightenment" experience.
When you listen to their conversation, they're not "afraid" of guns, they simply believe that gun ownership is anarchy and that guns and their owners must be controlled. They will rant about how "others" are afraid, and how "guns are scary" and that sort of thing. Their rhetoric contains words like 'legitimate', 'illegal', 'evil', 'frightening', 'control', 'punishment', and 'regulate'.
Don't take them shooting. Don't try to educate or persuade them.
Fight them when you must, call them on their lies, and give them no ground. They're not honest and they harbor grudges. They will lie *to* you, and they will lie *about* you.
The ground you want to pick for arguments with them is rights, not guns per se. They want control. Guns are just in the way.
Ultimately they want your rights. Deny them that.