18 elementary school kids dead in school shooting 30 minutes from me

30,000, eh?

"A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone "almost certainly would have been killed" if they "had not used a gun for protection." Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all "military service, police work, or work as a security guard.""

yes, that is fine (of course if those criminals breaking into their homes didnt have guns either then what would those numbers be?)

but anyways my point is that guns can be used responsibly and usually are, but around 80% of the gun crimes that are committed are done so with illegally obtained firearms or firearms that are registered to someone else. The people that are using them in crimes are usually not the people that legally purchased them.

If you want to kepe them at your side in a holster and your state permits it, fine, whatever. Statistics support that people who carry guns are more likely to be killed by a gun so I'd rather not have one, thanks, but if you want to then whatever. The point is, gun crimes are committed primarily because of illegal gun sales and irresponsible gun owners whose guns are stolen or taken by others and then used to commit crimes/murders. Keeping a gun in a holster has nothing to do with it, but when it comes to storage I definitely think there should be some regulations on how to properly and responsibly store guns so that they do not fall into the wrong hands.