Finally! It took 3 pages for someone to illustrate the bottom line:
A gun owner is more likely to take his own life or the life of a family member, than he is to defend his home and property by killing a bad guy with his firearm.
By the way everyone likes to hail Switzerland as this haven of non-violence, but they too have a serious suicide problem with the very weapons from military service that are stored in the home.
The 2nd ammendment is archaic and is no more relevant today than Martin Luther's The Ninety-Five Theses. America is still trying to function based on 18th century principles of government. When America starts helping its citizens with education, health, and general well-being, crime and social unrest will all but disappear. Today America is The Land of the Fear, instead of Free. People live in fear of starvation, unemployment, bad health, homelessness, encarceration, etc. and they are being made to believe that it's not those social problems, but that their constitutional rights are being eroded.
P.S. I am a Canadian, living in a social welfare province, and I own 2 pistols and a sub-machine gun because I like guns.