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A gun isn't a necessity for self defense.
Heck, if a shooting started on a street, I'd take a car over a handgun anytime.
Same in the unlikely event I'd want to hurt dozens of people on a market or any kind of public gathering on the street.
Cars, more importantly, serve an actual purpose other than hurting people; guns don't. But strangely, it is for you normal to limit the harmless (relatively speaking) and usufull one, but to not keep in check the harmful one, that is only useful in some cases that arise from the fact that they are not kept inn check in the first place?
For self-defense, maybe. But the useful one for serving as a check on government is guns, not cars.
Remember that with the 2nd Amendment, personal self-defense and hunting are not the central purpose. The central purpose is to serve as a check on tyrannical government. Hunting and personal self-defense against crime, etc. are human rights and a wonderful outgrowth of the primary cause, but they are not the main intent.
I get that in these halcyon days of state largesse, bread and circuses disguised as reality TV and the NFL, it is tough to imagine things going really bad. But look at some other parts of the world, like El Salvador or Syria. Shit is really fucked up. Those poor people are not any different from Westerners. We are lucky that the course of history has worked out in our favor and we live in affluence. We should not close ourselves off to the possibility that we (or maybe our descendants) could face very different challenges than we do.
Here's what I don't understand with all these government conspiracies: you are aware that if it wanted to, the state would have much better means to get its way than to outright fight its population? And do it in such a way that it escapes the attention of the citizen?
Heck, I'm pretty sure they're doing it for a long time now.
The first amendment was written in another time too, yes; it however stays relevant (and is even more so relevant with the uprising of the internet) as communication has continued in the same direction as when it was written; militia and the british threat hasn't.
I don't believe in any crazy conspiracies. I'm not fucking Alex Jones. But I do believe in being prepared and in maintaining individual rights. It's similar to a fire extinguisher. Having a fire extinguisher does not mean you are a paranoid maniac obsessed with fire, it is just a means of being prepared for an unlikely event. I never said a tyranny was imminent in the U.S., and I don't think that. But one of the reasons it is not likely is because we stay vigilant and don't learn to trust the state too much.
The 2nd Amendment was not only about the British threat. It was about the American threat, and threats that may exist some time in the future that we cannot predict. Democracies do turn bad sometimes, right? It happens. Weimar Germany was a very progressive and vibrant democratic state for a short time. Evil people can come to control the levers of power, even in a democracy.