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Statistically if you have a gun your risk of death by homicide doubles, and suicide rate triples citation.
Guns don't make you safe. Dogs are a are an actually effective deterrent for example citation.
Your first link doesn’t separate correlation and causation. Is a high murder rate area more likely to cause people to buy a gun, or the inverse? I can tell you for sure people who are in a bad situation generally don’t just sit on their asses and do nothing.
No it doesn't, so that's why I didn't speculate on the cause. But the statistics don't lie, and you'd be a fool for assuming you'd be the exception.
As for speculation, guns are tools of escalation. Pulling a gun on robber while half asleep can turn a robbery into a homicide. Not to mention all the stories of people who shoot at intruders who turn out to be police from a no knock warrant and inevitably kill someone.
But it doesn't matter what the cause for it really is in the end. Owning guns don't make you safe.