I want to throw another perspective here. I had a friend on a voice call earlier this month. He lives in California, which in theory has very strong gun control laws.

While on call, his house alarm goes off, so he grabs his shotgun out of the safe and goes to find out what is happening.

We, on the call, waiting for him to come back, heard three distinct gunshots.

Turns out some guy, high on some substance was trying to break into the house, and opened fire when our friend showed up at the door.

This is to my limited understanding, a "strong gun control" state. So from our perspective, it looks like you must have a gun to be safe; that the law does not help.

And this is after California banned body armour, which he was complaining about.