Only a fraction of the population are criminals, and you cannot treat all people as though they were criminals.
But you can't tell who is going to become a criminal before they actually commit a crime, which means every single gun owner has the
potential to be a criminal. You're telling me it's a "fraction" of the population, but you can't say that for sure because you don't know who is a criminal and who isn't.
And then, of course, the fact that all guns criminals get come from "responsible gun owners". So this isn't an instance of innocence & guilt, this is an instance of responsibility and negligence. You may be innocent until proven guilty, but you're negligent until proven responsible.
That's wrong. people have a right to keep and bear arms unless they have proven themselves to be criminals.
But what about those who haven't yet proven themselves to be criminals, but will? Are you just writing them off? So you're also writing off their victims too, then. It's that monstrous position that is galvanizing the anti-gun movement. Look what happened in Wisconsin last night; an NRA-backed Conservative judge was just trounced by double-digits by a liberal anti-gun candidate. Expect more of that to happen up to and through November, and it's solely because of you and your positions.
That being said it is only reasonable for people who realize that law cannot protect them from criminals, to buy guns to even up the odds of surviving a criminal attack.
LOL! All you do when you bring a gun into your home is increase the supply of guns from which criminals steal, making it easier and more likely for a criminal to get their hands on a gun. So you might think it evens the odds, but it doesn't. For one, you can't even quatify those odds, and for two, the odds go way up that you'll hurt yourself or someone in your family with your gun before you ever use it for self-defense.
So you're not playing the odds. You're making the odds worse for yourself and everyone else.