Guns don't kill people ....

[Lamplighter]

The left demonizes guns to the point where people are prevented from being exposed to a culture of safe handling of firearms, ...

What leads you to say this ?

I've no idea when or how or who, among liberals or anyone else, is preventing education or gun safety.
For example, the NRA/Boy Scouts/hunting clubs/local police/ etc have public gun-safety events,
and I've never heard about anyone complaining or opposing them.

If by "exposed to a culture", you mean everyone should have their own gun,
or parents should always allow their children to play in houses where there are guns,
or everyone should go hunting, or the such, maybe you have a point.

I agree we are very polarized on this issue. But as liberals go,
I feel they live their lives in tolerance of current laws, but maybe working to change them.
But "demonizing", No...
(Well, except I do demonize the NRA --- but only because they deserve it. )

I do see the liberals-on-this-issue trying to use the statistical data that has been gathered
over the years by public health institutions to convince others of
the unnecessary (<-my word) deaths and harm that comes via guns.

I find it ironic that with all it's $, the NRA does not buy gun-safety
PSA's (public service announcements) on radio or TV,
the way electric companies tell people to not touch electric wires.
Instead, the NRA is devoted to... Well, you know what NRA is devoted to.

You mention suicide and home invasions.
For many years, there have been very large, multi-state, annual
surveys by the Feds trying to put numbers on such catagories.
Suicides are easy to count, as are hospital/ER admittances due to gun shot.
Home invasions - not so much - but they do try to sort out if a gun was present/used/deterred
and the data is NOT there to support what the gun community wants to believe.

Then you get into reasons why "the Fed survey is invalid because..."
I can agree with some of the reasons, but at the end of it all it becomes a matter of weight.
If guns were actually deterring or prevention a significant number of injuries,
the data should be leaning in that direction. But it's not.
So everyone gets into anecdotes to make their point... thinking the more dramatic, the better.