"While being tasted by unholy hell beasts is miserable and inconvenient, at least you have a chance to fight them off. Any old schmuck can just waltz into your backyard and pull his trigger at your heart.

It's fast. It's fatal. It's freaking horrifying. Even I can't just....heal from that."

And perhaps the Slayer's disdain for guns was rooted not just in sentimentality but in an actual and cogent fear of the things.