Why do people insist on needing a gun? Please list the reasons but not those already debunked

[The Straight Story]

24. I used to be a deputy

Funny when you work for the government how people trust you with one, but when you don't they do not.

Same people, different titles.

And we did not just have them at work. Folks had them at home as well because we saw the worst of the worse.

When you spend all night (I was night shift) with criminals and see what they do you sort of want a way to defend yourself when outside of work (and I had plenty of inmates who hated me - and no, I did not carry a gun at work generally as I worked in the jail, but sometimes had duties outside of it - but we had access to them).

Had an inmate, wife beater, follow me home from work one day. I did not have a gun but the other deputy with me did and we contained him.

Where I live now is even more dangerous and all the dealers carry guns, all the hoodlums do, and if someone were to break into my house with one I would have no way of defending myself (I do not own a gun but someone who lives here does).

I have purchased ONE gun in my whole life, for work (armed guard) and sold it back to company when I left.

Funny though. Our guards were armed for safety reasons in bad areas.

Some would only allow them to buy a gun and the people living around there to not have one.

We trust companies and government, and not each other - the government and corporations have won as we see each other now as the enemy and them as our saviors.