I've never gotten a sexual thrill from a gun. That seems to be unique to people who are ignorant about (or hate) guns. If you actually learned about guns, you'd realize your previous confidence was based on lies you've been told.

With a gun-- usually you can stop the threat without even firing a shot, due to the fact that the bad guy doesn't want to risk being killed or hospitalized. So, again, you can adapt the damage you do; an appropriate level depending on the actions of the attacker. I'll never understand why anti-gunners imagine it is more ethical to kill an attacker with your bare hands than by shooting them. The result is the same, but I suppose governments can ban hands, so that explains a lot of it.