I remember watching coverage of a "women in support of guns" rally on CSPAN a year or two ago. One of the women told a story of how her husband was beating her, and she ran to the gun cabinet (with her husband chasing her), got the gun, and turned it on him and was able to hold him off until the Police came. She seemed so grateful for the gun.
Would she have felt the same of her husband had gotten to the gun first and turned it on her? Or would she instead be marching in a "women against guns in the home" rally? Or, if this guy was mean enough to beat her, do you think he'd be more prone to shoot her if he got to the gun first?