Your premise is ONLY an opinion, not based in any evidence.
It is also to be noted that ANY mass shooting type incidence that has occurred in the US was immediately stopped when a armed private citizen acted.
Hopefully you won't need to defend you or your family. My question is, do you carry life insurance? I view being armed as a type of insurance.
The "most gun owners are shot with their own guns" comment you made, really? What a crock.
Unless you have evidence to back it up?
According to Dr. Kleck, you may be wrong.
Even the Department of Justice estimates 1.5 million per year.
Former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, “… [W]hen a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery – from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing – produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.”
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/kleck2.html
At least 12 national and 3 state-wide surveys have asked probability samples of the general adult population about defensive gun use. The surveys differ in many important respects. The two most sophisticated national surveys are the National Self-Defense Survey done by Marc Gertz and myself in 1995 and a smaller scale survey done by the Police Foundation in 1996.
The National Self-Defense Survey was the first survey specifically designed to estimate the frequency of defensive gun uses. It asked all respondents about both their own uses and those of other household members, inquired about all gun types, excluded uses against animals or connected with occupational duties, and limited recall periods to one and five years. Equally importantly, it established, with detailed questioning, whether persons claiming a defensive gun use had actually confronted an adversary (as distinct from, say, merely investigating a suspicious noise in the backyard), actually used their guns in some way, such as, at minimum, threatening their adversaries (as distinct from merely owning or carrying a gun for defensive reasons), and had done so in connection with what they regarded as a specific crime being committed against them.
The National Self-Defense Survey indicated that there were 2.5 million incidents of defensive gun use per year in the U.S. during the 1988-1993 period. This is probably a conservative estimate, for two reasons. First, cases of respondents intentionally withholding reports of genuine defensive-gun uses were probably more common than cases of respondents reporting incidents that did not occur or that were not genuinely defensive. Second, the survey covered only adults age 18 and older, thereby excluding all defensive gun uses involving adolescents, the age group most likely to suffer a violent victimization.
Looks like it is mostly people defending their home or security guards doing their job. Not too many gunfights at the OK corral. I stand by my original premise. I think carrying in public doesn't accomplish much. Even if you do end up using the gun, you probably didn't need to and you will end up in court defending yourself.