Actually, home protection is kind of like home dentistry... most of you aren't competent to do it.
This is one of the most outrageously false statements ever posted on USMB. There have been countless situations where women and even children have picked up a firearm in the home and defended their family from harm.
The fact is, home defense is not like urban combat or guerrilla warfare. You're not engaging targets from 200 yards. The shots are in hallways and doorways with no where to move out of the line of fire and at point blank range. And that is why there have been volumes of cases where even women and children have stopped an intruder with deadly force despite having little or no training.
And there've been 'countless' cases where they've shot their own kids by mistakes or a domestic argument has gone too far.
In fact...
Deeper in the report are findings that challenge other common assumptions. The vast majority of the murders were not in conjunction with another felony being committed. A high percentage of the victims, 72 percent, knew their killer. And 54 percent involved an argument between the victim and the offender.
What the homicide numbers don't tell - chicagotribune.com
So quite the contrary, a gun in the home does not make you safer.