You obviously know fuck all about firearms and the hobby surrounding them. Comparing a gun to a baseball bat and saying you can't play baseball with a gun? Your argument is just as "myopic" as you claim the other is. In America, guns are a sporting tool. Guns are made to punch holes in paper, steel, and animal targets. Over 99% of legal gun owners in America use them for that purpose. Why? Because that's our reason for owning them, the manner in which we desire to use them. Are guns used in crime? Yes, because small amount of people have chosen a criminal lifestyle and choose a tool for that job. Guns are used in a low number of those crimes. Guess what, baseball bats are used in crimes as well, they're even easier to get your hands on. What pisses me off the most about anti-gun arguments is that they always try to take the human element out of it as if a humans motive had no bearing on the actions committed. A gun won't kill anyone unless the human operating it has the desire to pull the trigger with the intent on taking life.

Just as some background on me, I'm a gun owner. I am also a retired Army soldier with a focus on weapons expertise. I trained a lot of people on the use of M4/16, 249, 250, etc platforms. I've never taken another human life despite hundreds of hours of trigger time and countless rounds fired.

To illustrate the pure sporting nature of guns I urge you to look at Anschutz GmbH, makers of some of the finest precision rifles in the world and actually do some honest research into people who own them and what they do with them, /r/guns can help you with that research.
http://jga.anschuetz-sport.com/index.php5?menu=105&sprache=1