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If a criminal attacks you and demands your money or tries to rape you or whatever, the safest thing to do is to just give him what he wants. If you do that, he has every reason to just take it and leave. But if you pull a gun, now you have upped the stakes. Now the criminal's only choice is to kill or be killed. So when you are attacked by a criminal, having a gun actually makes you less safe, not more.
Furthermore, if you have a gun in your home, there is always the danger that in a family quarrel, in a moment of temper, someone will grab the gun and kill another family member.
That is, a violent criminal, who is in the very act of committing a felony, can be trusted not to use a gun unless it is abslutely necessary for his own self-defense. It is absurd to suppose that he might hurt someone in a moment of panic, or just kill someone for kicks. Criminals are very careful, responsible people.
But an ordinary law-abiding citizen who gets his hands on a gun will probably go crazy and shoot anyone in sight. Even the most loving, gentle person, who would never dream of hurting their spouse or children with other weapons you might find around a house like knives or baseball bats or rat poison, when a gun is available to them, will likely grab it and start shooting at the least provocation. Guns exert a mysterious effect on law-abiding people that turns them into violent maniacs. Law-abiding people can't be trusted to handle guns responsibly.
At least, that's what the gun-control people tell me. Um, yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.
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