>I disagree. A gun escalates an incident. If someone hell bent on killing people gets into my home or some other place where I am, my having a gun isn't going to help.
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>If someone is committing a non-violent crime and I introduce a gun to the situation, I've just raised the violence level and increase my own chances of getting hurt.
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>The people in this world who have used guns to save their lives would strongly disagree.

Sure because the ones who died because they raised a gun cannot agree anymore. And even here, your logic is obviously lacking the reason why the criminals are armed and willing to use them.

You should start thinking why the rest of the western world is much more safe compared to the US.

Just think...