@OmSigDAVID,
I will tell you a true story...
I raised two of my brother's children with my mother till they were young adults...
One day my mother and I were late getting home on a school night. It happens... My 11 year old nephew had regrettably spent a couple hours home alone...
He barricaded himself into the house and turned out all the lights and, no, we did NOT have guns in the house...
It was just dark when we finally got home.
I opened the front door to the house and my 11 year old nephew came charging at me in the dark with a homemade bow and arrow. I saw the arrow feebly fall to the ground. No, we did not even let the children have a real bow and arrows...
He said in a panicked voice, "Oh uncle I almost shot you!" Afterwards I examined this bow and arrow, it was a piece of yarn strung between an alder branch. It would not have even propelled the thick alder branch he intended to use to defend himself.
Had there been a gun in the house I would probably not be here to tell this story.
I am proud of the way I and my mother raised him and his sister. At 18 years old he joined the Coast Guard... He is also the father of two beautiful children of his own now and he is also clergy...
David, you think the answer to everything is guns and you are WRONG...