I am the same, grew up hunting, and never saw a use for, and never had dreams of owning an assault rifle. I think the general view of people that don't want gun control is that "if you give the government an inch, they will take a mile" so don't give them anything...That is not how I think.
As far as school shootings, if parents were doing their jobs then these kids, most of them, would not have access to the guns unsupervised. I keep all of my guns in a safe, and the key is hidden away. My kids know the only time the guns come out of the safe is when we are going to target shoot or hunting. Otherwise, they don't leave the safe. It was the same with my parents.
However, since we live in the world we live in and there are irresponsible people in the world, I do believe we need better gun control laws, I just want the laws to be reasonable unlike some red flag laws I've heard of where a neighbor or a mad ex or whoever can say you threatened them somehow and then you have your guns taken away until you prove otherwise. I think laws like that are unreasonable.