Get a gun, join the NRA, and if your town won't let you defend your life get out!
Thank God Florida has some people with good sense. We got a citizen-friendly concealed-carry law 20-odd years ago and just recently progressed from 'yah gotta retreat" to "stand your ground".
Contrary to the woeful predictions of the anti-gun doomsayers the streets have neither "...run red with blood..." nor turned into battlegrounds. Mostly, nobody's noticed a difference.