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just stickin' my head in the door
What every person needs...
-food
-water
-protection (from the elements, from predators)
-a sense of self-efficacy and -direction
...how each satisfies those needs is largely a matter of individual preference.
In this thread's context: some folks, in part, satisfy the need to self-protect and -direct (and eat) by having a big honkin' GUN. Me, I find my coach gun fits the bill. The fella down the street might assess a bazooka is more to his liking.
So, no, folks don't determine their own needs...they do, however, determine how best to meet those needs, and -- sometimes -- the way one goes about it, the tools he or she chooses, seem excessive to another. This is normal, natural, and ain't gonna change any time soon.
So we futz around with one another trying to restrain and (re)direct and restrict by way of the big stick (law). Sometimes that works, often it doesn't.
Gonna be interesting to see how things play out with this latest bout of 'you shouldn't have that!' and 'that's a bad, BAD, tool!'.
nuff said.
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