2016 Postmortem

If you are responsible, or perhaps just because you have others around, you keep the gun locked in a safe.

Won't you have to retrieve it and be ready in time, before the criminal who picked your front door, has opened it and pointed his gun at you?

And if you were ready, won't the presence of your gun make it more likely that he will react in a way which you might not be able to predict, whereby you end up missing him, but he in turn shoots you dead?

I guess I look at the alternative side when it comes to guns. Where some might think it's a way to protect yourself from harm, I view it as an item which is capable of causing death, and while perhaps not 50/50, still probably increases the chance of my own death. And maybe even due to my own, or someone else's, negligence.