The "day your number comes up" may be the day when an innocent stranger knocks on your door. Not the day when a serial killer does. The day you make a tragic decision when you're anxious and scared and have incomplete information, and end up destroying your life by killing an innocent person. - albaby

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You seem to know a lot about what law abiding, normal, stable, rationale gun owners may do in the their homes.

Statistics say about 45% of home have a gun in them. If even the tiniest fraction of those law abiding gun owners over reacted and shot an otherwise innocent "visitor", we would see a lot more of it than the few cases we see reported.

americanfirearms.org: Firearm Statistics | American Firearms

- there are 250 ' 280 million firearms in the US
- 40 ' 50% of US homes own a firearm, that's 120 ' 150 million people

And regarding how infrequently home invasion occurs? While searching for the above statistic, I ran across this eye opener

creditdonkey.com - Home invasion statistics

How many homes are robbed each year?
The DOJ reported 1 million burglaries occurred with people in the home. 27% of them became victim of a violent crime. (Source: creditdonkey.com - Home invasion statistics)

See that word "violent" in the above statistic. I know you feel safer if I don't have a gun, but that's on you. I am not a threat to you or anyone else for that matter. But I feel safer with one. I am not forcing,you to own one yet you would force me to not own one if you could. Be afraid of criminals or crazy people, not me or the hundred million like me. Sheesh.