Originally Posted by The_Jazz

Let's also remember that guns are much more likely to be used against a resident than an intruder. The occurrence of home invasion (generally defined as burglary with the resident present) is pretty low in the US. I wish that I had a link to the story, but I read something fairly recently where the chances of being struck by lightening are 1 in 27,000 and being a victim of a home invasion are 1 in 1,500,000. I could easily have those numbers wrong since it's been at least a couple of months since I read that article, so my apologies in advance if I messed it up. In other words, please don't flame me if my early-onset Alzheimers is acting up again.