A. In a free society, I am not required to justify my choices. I don’t have to explain my “feelings” about anything.
B. “Need”, there is that word again. In what ways are enumerated rights dependent on needs? If something better than a gun existed for personal defense, I’d want that, I don’t have to explain my “need” about anything. You seem like you are confusing rights with grants and privileges.
So you either don’t actually understand rights in the US, or you are arguing in bad faith because you just don’t like them.
I don't care particularly about gun rights in the US as I'm not American and no longer live in the US. My question was simply why someone who believed that knives were as effective as guns would feel that they needed a gun to defend themselves. I think you are getting the wrong end of the stick.
A. In a free society, I am not required to justify my choices. I don’t have to explain my “feelings” about anything.
B. “Need”, there is that word again. In what ways are enumerated rights dependent on needs? If something better than a gun existed for personal defense, I’d want that, I don’t have to explain my “need” about anything. You seem like you are confusing rights with grants and privileges.
So you either don’t actually understand rights in the US, or you are arguing in bad faith because you just don’t like them.