In my scenario, I would certainly know if someone was breaking into my house as my German Shepperd would alert me. Not knowing if they had a gun or not - and in some likelyhood that they managed to subdue my dog - I would gather my family into one room, barricade the door, let the intruder know I had a gun, verbally or with a warning shot, while my wife called the police. I don;t own a gun so if someone comes into my house I can run down the stairs and confront them, but so that if they press the issue and it is my life or theirs, I have the means to defend and protect myself and my family. According to you, unless I run down and kill the guy I'm not really concerned about protecting my family. I think this debate took a left turn a bit ago. I see that you are either being deliberately irrational to spark some flames and get some mod intervention or your world view is so radically different from mine (and apparently some others on here) that having a logical discourse on the subject with you is not possible. The world is not black and white. But you can find no fault in Obama whether he blatantly lies or not, Zimmerman should be hanged though he hasn't even been tried and much of what we DO know points to it NOT being murder, people ONLY buy guns to kill others. Check, check, and check.
YOu know who's in favor of getting rid of legal firearms? Criminals who obtain theirs illegally. Might want to think about that.
AS I said, take away the guns and see what happens. The people who perpetrated these mass murders di so from the basis that they had an intent to kill, period. Take away the guns and they'll find some other way. A car, a bomb, something. THen it would get blown up on the 'news' 24/7 giving other nutjobs all kind of new ideas and then you'd start seeing a proliferation of murders done in a like manner.
And again, how are you prepared to protect yourself and your family in the event an armed intruder threatened your lives? Still haven't answered that one.
