Could people not just lock their doors at night, and maybe invest in making their home secure from intruders if they're that paranoid? If the criminal can't enter, wouldn't that remove the need for a gun to protect your home? Isn't prevention better than cure?
And I actually think having a gun would increase your chance of death if an armed intruder were to enter your house. Picture this. You hear a robber downstairs and decide to get your gun. You cautiously go downstairs with your gun to "defend" you and your property. The robber sees you first, BANG! Hard luck, you're dead. Only because the intruder feared for his own life when he saw that you had a gun. Maybe next time you'll let them just take the TV, instead of the TV and your life. Oh wait, that's right. There's not going to be a next time...
Guns are instruments of death. In a stand off between two people equipped with the things, someone is going to get seriously hurt. You're effectively playing a game of Russian Roulette with an armed robber when you decide to bring another gun into the situation.
So, why can't we just make sure to lock all our windows and doors at night, and if need be, buy some things (like better or more locks, alarms) to ensure our house's are virtually intruder-proof? It wouldn't be that hard. Is that not a better step to take to ensure our, our family's and our posessions safety?
