The thing about a gun in the house, legally, is this: if you have a domestic with your partner, and you both get extremely angry with each other, how easy it to storm to the bedroom, get the gun, load it, and in a fit of blind rage, pull the trigger at your partner?

If you have a gun in the house, you automatically raise the stakes in any confrontational situation.

If someone is breaking into your house, a gun is not required in order to evict the invader from your property.

Guns in daily life are such a bad, bad idea. I don't get how anyone can justify keeping a mechanism purely designed to kill in their household.