If you lived in America, would you own a gun?

[DMorgan]

Fair enough, but 'do I feel safer' isn't the question that I'm proposing an answer to because it is impossible for me or anyone else know how other people should or do feel.

If you feel safer owning a gun then absolutely go ahead an own a gun. Everyone is free to prioritize feeling safer over being safer if they wish to do so, I just take a different view.