If guns kept people safe the US would be the safest place in the world, it isn't, they don't.
The reality is a gun is a crappy self defense tool, it is a really good assualt tool it therefore lends itself to being used more effectively by thugs not homeowners, most times people are attacked they can't find their gun in time or they are to scared to use it effectively or just plain don't know what is happening until it is to late.
The thug, on the other hand, has the advantage, he is in charge with the gun drawn and loaded and in his hand.
The other reality is most murders are not commited by 'thugs' but by boyfriends or husbands shooting other family members or aquaintences, guns to nothing to stop this but do make these disgruntled pricks far more deadly.
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