I submit that it is many/most gunowners that do not trust their fellow citizens. That's why they feel the need to arm themselves against them. You're convinced that some subset of our population is going to burst into your home and kill you. Even though the data show that this is an exceedingly rare event. - 1pg

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Home invasion is probably one of the least frequent crimes where defending oneself is up to the potential victim. So that tiny probability is no justification to take fire arms away from law abiding business owners in bad neighborhoods, your wife or daughter who choose to carry which is about the only way then can protect themselves from assault or worse by an assailant much bigger and stronger than themselves, or campers who are concerned about two or four legged intruders (btw that happened to me, I didn't have a gun with me that time but I did have a baseball bat in my hand when I "asked" him to leave), or having to be out on the road at night for some reason, or for all sorts of reason including being attacked by the enraged methhead you walk by on the street.

I am fine with the many people don't feel those threats are a good reason, or that the police will protect them, of that guns are just plain icky. So they don't own one. Fine, just don't project your choices on the millions of law abiding gunowners who choose differently.

All that said, keep in mind you are not required to provide a reason to exercise a right.