I Don't Think Guns Make Us Safer

I agree there is nothing safer about everyone having a gun. A gun is a weapon not a shield. Besides if a person goes nuts it's better that they don't have the firepower to kill a bunch of random people and with a bit of luck he can be detained before he even kills one. If everyone goes armed it does nothing by the time they can realize what's going on he can fire off several shots etc. The silly things people say are "criminals will get guns anyway", which is true but HOW MANY of them? It's not the same when career criminals and organized crime cells have guns to when every little pickpocket is packing and each and every crime comes with a gun attached. If criminals know you have guns they'll just have more guns and shoot first cause you know... they're criminals. While in most countries criminals don't carry guns cause they know their victims don't either and small criminal activities don't end with someone getting shot dead. The bans on guns might seem inefective because some criminals do have them even in european countries that ban guns, but HOW MANY do have them, very few simply because being a banned and scarce object (to sell an illegal gun you'd first have to steal one and since close to no citizens have one you have little merchandise for a lot of demand) and you know what scarce offer means right? High prices. So an illegal gun might be a couple hundred in the US while it will be closer to thousands in a country with a gun ban, and it doesn't even make sense to use a gun in a crime since it makes you easier to find in a gun ban country. So you'll say "oh but the criminals would still come at you with a knife!" true.. but how many people have you ever heard got stabbed in a "drive by" or innocent bystanders stabbed in a public hit on someone?