Your right if I lived in the states I'd protect my family too. The only thing I'd say is the wrong people have been awake for a long time they have the whole show sown up so you guys shooting each other at the rate of ten thousand a year give or take does nothing to protect you from your government and gives them more room to protect you from each other and that's where the problems start.
Your talking gangs shooting? If so lots of evidence that the CIA had & still has a hand in running drugs & shooting does the government a service by showing how dangerous guns are & how they should be banned!
No disagreement about running the country almost 16 trillion in debt pointing fingers is what it's about right now!
I wonder how better off our country would be if we wouldn't of gone alone into two wars that are still costing us in places we sold & gave weapons!