Your answer is akin to that of the Jews in the 1930’s Germany when told, mostly by other Jews, that if and when Hitler came to power, he would exterminate them. Their main responses were: He won’t do that. He can’t do that. That is political talk, it will never happen. He don’t mean it. Our Gentile neighbors will protect us. History tells us what happened.
“Our Gentile neighbors will protect us.”
Gun owners don’t need their neighbors to protect them.