Originally Posted by Franck

Read this over and over and over till you get it.

Data from the FBI's Crime in the United States reveals that for every time in 1998 that a civilian used a handgun to kill in self defense, 50 people lost their lives in handgun homicides alone.

Other studies have looked specifically at the more narrow question of keeping guns in the home for self-defense. One, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that having a gun in the home made it nearly three times more likely that someone in the family will be killed. This risk is particularly high for women, who are more likely to be killed by a spouse, intimate acquaintance, or close relative. An Archives of Internal Medicine study found that, with one or more guns in the home, the risk of suicide among women increased nearly five times and the risk of homicide increased more than three times.

Basically if you own a gun for self defense the chance that an accident happens is bigger than that you will ever need it to protect yourself.

In other words, you are a bigger danger to yourself than the thief who *might* rob your house but most likely wont.