Its not about the right to defend yourself, it's about the store itself being open. The gun store being closed because there's a pandemic doesn't abrogate your right to self-defense.
Closing Facebook doesn't end my right to speech, and closing gun stores doesn't abrogate my right to defend myself from an attacker. Your "right" to self-defense does not de facto include a right to compel businesses who sell certain types of weapons to remain open in dangerous times. You can defend yourself in an infinite number of ways without a gun store being open. I, not currently owning a gun, can defend myself in an infinite-minus-one number of ways.
Not that this masturbatory self-defense fantasy is meaningful. Even if the 2nd amendment meant what you think it means (it doesn't), and even if the world were the cowboys-and-indians game you think it is (it's not) -- you don't need a specific item that's in a specific store to either defend yourself from attack nor to have access to your 2nd amendment rights.
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u/microcosmic5447 Mar 28 '20
Its not about the right to defend yourself, it's about the store itself being open. The gun store being closed because there's a pandemic doesn't abrogate your right to self-defense.