@dr-pepper Because your scenario is so unlikely to the point of being ridiculous. Out of the thousands of massive riots that swept the country in 2020, how many times did a mob descend on an innocent person to kill him or her?
You know what else is useful? A .50 cal automatic would be great if a herd of rhinos were charging your house. So maybe we should all set up machine gun nests in our upper floors!
My point is, that no matter how much protection guns offer an individual, a much better protection would be having no guns to begin with.
Let’s say all guns in the USA just disappeared tomorrow. Now let’s take a quick metric a year from now. How many innocent were lost because people didn’t have guns to defend themselves? 10? 20? OK, now let’s look on the flip side. We continue as we are. Now how many innocent lives are lost because some maniac got their hands on a high capacity high caliber firearm. It’s way way WAY more than 10 or 20.