No, she lost a family member because a violent human. This human could've used a variety of different tools to commit this murder -- an automobile, poison, a gun, knives, etc.
"Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense."
lol....160? I've personally posted over 160 "legitimate self-defense" articles on FR just in the last 6 months alone. The truth is there are many thousands of cases of law-abiding citizens using firearms in self-defense. .....annually.
Extract: "Research by award-winning criminologist Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz reveals Americans use guns for self-defense as often as 2.5 million times a year--that's three to five times more often than they are misused by criminals."