My best friend is a retired police sergeant, spent many years in Homicide. One of the cases he had to participate in was a family killed by an intruder. With no means of self-defense in the home, the intruder managed to overpower and tie-up the mother, father and four children. They were arranged on the living room floor, in a circle, on their bellies, facing each other. The intruder then took a clothing iron from the kitchen, and one by one, used it to punch a hole in their skulls, then took a long bladed kitchen knife and stirred it around in their brains until they died. The parents watched this happen to their kids, then the father/husband watched it happen to his wife, then he was the last victim.
I don't personally give a rat's red behind what statistics someone from another country wants to quote, and I don't care a rotten fig how many people die from any other causes.
This I DO care about: If ANYONE comes into my home to commit violence against me or my (future) wife, I will deal with them in the gravest extreme and do WHATEVER is necessary to ensure my/our safety. If it takes a firearm for that, so be it. Whether in my home or in public. If you don't want to protect yourself, that is your right and privilege but don't attempt to preach to me as to how I should or should not defend myself.
You should be aware that virtually everything you see from Hollywood, TV land, and other media, regarding firearms, is wrong.
The guys in the first video scare me because they seem to represent the uneducated American public, who only know three words: Assault rifle, bullet, gun. Everything they think they know about firearms comes from movies and TV. They acted like a bunch of ten-year olds at the zoo. The one idiot even managed to cork off a round while looking backward over his shoulder at the camera. (Yo, dude, I mean, like, hey man, like do you like know what the trigger is for?) The future of America? (Shudder.)
Firearms are not the first and only weapons we humans have invented. Clubs and thrown stones came about to defend against fists and feet. Axes and swords and other edged weapons were developed to defeat clubs. Then it escalated to spears and arrows and things that can kill at a distance. Gunpowder came along and the distance was increased. There will be a next step (the U.S. Navy now has an operable, deployed LASER weapon, mounted on one of our warships), and we'll have this same debate when we get to that. It isn't about guns, or spears, or arrows, or knives. It is about the right to be left alone and be able to defend ourselves in our homes and daily lives.