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the strawman there is fascinating anyway, the place cars have in US society is the result of regulatory capture, industry interests and politicians have tried very hard to make car ownership essentially mandatory, even to the point of criminalising pedestrians (jaywalking laws for example). Cars and roads become something which restricts your freedom, and they become a pretext for policing everyday life.

On the other hand, firearm ownership isn't mandatory, it's a right conceived a long time ago. There's nuance of course, but that's not really relevant to this analogy, the government doesn't force you to own a gun in order to live everyday life to satisfy firearms manufacturers.