@ AA
For the
nth time, it's not random armed intruders who do most of the killing. It's people who are known to you. I don't doubt you could protect yourself from said armed intruder,
but he's not the main threat.
Your list of anecdotes, assuming your figure of 6500 is correct, goes back to 1959, so at least 53 years, so a massive 123 a year. That compares to the >100,000 homicides per year by gun (
source - CDC).
In all honesty, I'm done with this. The same tired old arguments keep coming up, specifically about protection from unknown intruders, and those who keep bringing them up simply aren't willing to accept that the main danger is from their own family and/or friends. If someone wants to show some actual studies of the protective benefit of guns then I'd be truly delighted to read it (and no, AA, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data").