>>904082>some posters think guns are unnecessary and his attitude is not at all uncommonYes, because not everyone lives in a place where everything is trying to kill you. This may come as a shocker to you but that encompasses most of the world.
>you'd also know people who exaggerate about things to make them seem worse than they really areYou have a really negative outlook on life, don't you? Without over-analysing your post, I think it's reasonably safe to say that at least half the dangers you feel you need a gun to protect yourself against are in your head.
Side note, I'm not going to go through the catalogue to find it but there is a thread containing a discussion that gradually does spin out of control, with anons suggesting that larger and larger calibre firearms are necessary to go /out/.