I just don’t think the need to defend against the government is a realistic hypothetical. To be honest, it seems to me anyway like a fantasy that gun enthusiasts like to float out to justify their enthusiasm.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with gun enthusiasm. I just don’t think the right to bear arms is all that important a right.
That’s pretty much where I’m at. I don’t hate guns, I personally think they’re fun. Sometimes they’re even useful. People hunt – mostly for entertainment but sometimes for practical purposes. People need to keep coyotes away from their chickens, that’s fine too. But everything else is just entertainment or you telling yourself a story about how it’s not just entertainment (and that story, ironically, is just another form of entertainment).
Pest control is important, but it just doesn’t rate on the same scale as free speech as far as I’m concerned, that’s all.