Tell me, why are firearms such an issue for you?
Don't you know they are the equalizer between a 90 lbs woman and several 120 lbs attackers?
Why bother with my opinions? Try the
Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, 1982 (or won't they be authoritative enough for you? The panel includes Senators Kennedy, Biden, Byrd, Leahy, Specter, Dole, and Hatch) ISBN 1-58160-254-5. They went back to Alfred the Great (872 AD), the Assize of Arms (1181 and 1253), the Statute of Northampton (1328), Henry VII, The Glorious Revolution, American colonial law, the Federalist Papers, the 2nd and 14th Amendments, all four SCOTUS decisions on the 2nd Amendment, Jim Crow laws, the forming the National Guard, and 10 USC sec 311(a). They concluded that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right, to be guaranteed by government...
Not once has the debate in American history even bothered to lower itself to consider societal concerns with crime. Gun ownership has never had anything to do with it, and to even begin to debate the point debases the wisdom, sacrifice, history, and glorious security that the 2nd Amendment has helped America achieve.