I couldn’t agree more. We have had only three murders here in the last 60 years in the rural area where I live. Almost everyone owns a gun and crime is very low. The cops here concentrate on traffic violations and if I were to call 911 it could take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour for them to arrive. So I need personal protection, mainly from mountain lions. I have been stalked by them and I’ve even their found tracks in the snow in my front yard.
Like you mentioned most “gun violence” is committed in big cities by gang bangers, we don’t have that problem here, so why should my freedoms be taken away because of the action of violent felons hundreds and thousands of miles away?