@timezoneless I think if the only reason for gun rights was govt tyranny but it want good for anything else, then yea, it doesn't make sense.

I think in modern day people focus much more on how gun rights tend to equate to lower violent crime rates overall. When we look at virtually every country in the last few decades that banned guns and the huge number of deaths that occurred as a direct result in the 5 - 10 aftermath of that ban, and when we see the same patterns in states and cities that ban guns, well ultimately it leads Americans to be very resistant to following down that path.