The second Amendment is necessary because it gives the people the right to defend themselves from invaders whether that's a home invader, or whether that's when the government fails to protect its citizens and the citizens can protect themselves from a foreign countries invasion.
Did you miss my point about proper gun safety and the effectiveness your guns will have in a spur of the moment incident requiring you to have one? You either A) have them locked away properly and they're entirely ineffective in a moment's notice in the event of a home invasion or B) they're out in the open, loaded, readily accessible and you're simply encouraging accidents. There's also quite literally zero chance that the US is going to be invaded by any foreign power in the foreseeable future.
Let me get this out it the way, if a robber knows you own weapons, do you think he will try to rob you or the guy who doesn't carry a weapon? Your argument about a gun being ineffective against a criminal is not true, if the criminal knows you have the same tool to take him out why would he even try to risk it when he can walk to someone else's unarmed house?
How does a robber know you own weapons? Sure any robber worth his salt will do some minimal casing but it's not like he's going to tell if someone owns guns or how many guns they own or how they're secured. My argument about them being ineffective is 100% true, read above where I just talked about proper gun safety. Do you honestly think someone will have time to be alerted to a home invasion, run to the gun safe, unlock it, unlock the weapon itself, load it, and be prepared to deal with an armed robber before getting shot by said robber?
Most people who own guns don't live in constant "fear" about anything, but rather to protect themselves just in case something does occur. Not to mention, a few posts ago I said people are also saved by gun carrying civilians who saved innocent lives by criminals with knives and other objects. In that particular scenario, the person in "fear" is the civilian who is unarmed, not the person who is armed. The ones living in fear are the same people begging for help when they are being robbed or held hostage by a criminal with a weapon.
Why else walk around carrying a gun then? If the person carrying said gun in public isn't in a constant state of fear of something happening, what then? If you feel a constant need to protect yourself from something, that's fear. That's quite literally an example of being fearful.
Let's say they're not afraid, for the sake of your argument, what then? Some sort of weird hero complex? Always have to remain strapped to be there for the 1 in 1000000 chances to save a civilian in distress?
A "few rifles" and pistols can help in the case of a tyrannical government, especially when there are 320 million people in the US and let's just assume half of those people are armed that would be a pretty strong force to be reckoned with. Even if a tyrannical government arises, you can't just assume everyone involved in government matters will put up with that, but rather join a rebellion against it.
If the government were serious about taking up arms against its own citizens, do you even stop to think about what that would entail? Congressmen in the streets with muskets that
We The People can just swiftly overrun with our own guns? Do you not realize that if the government
actually turned violent against its own people, it would likely involve the utilization of the most powerful military the world has ever seen? You wanna take your .22 into the streets and try to outlast an armed drone?
People don't just use guns to "blow shit up", they are used for sport as well as hunting and protecting oneself from being hunted out in the wild. I would even argue that people who dislike guns, and want them banned, are the people who are scared rather then the people who own guns themselves. Which is why they want them abolished and want them to be harder to obtain.
Using guns for sport is quite literally just blowing shit up lol. Shooting targets, clay pigeons, etc. Who needs an AK to take out a deer? Use a bow and give the thing a chance at least. I'm not afraid of guns at all and I doubt anti-gun advocates are either. They're just unnecessary in a modern society like we have today.
