I know my thoughts but I won't pretend to have the right answer for everyone.
Personally from what I have read, what my own research into the subject has told me, a gun almost always increases, not decreases personal risk in most situations. It creates a false sense of power that leads to its own problems. I used to be a gun owner, still do deep down have a fascination with them for sport and am not against going to the range with friends. But I no longer have any in my home. Both through my studying on the subject that changed my views and a personal experience that put a frightening anecdote to the evidence I was absorbing.
But a lot of that data would rightfully go out the window to an extent if say, there was a major uptick in white nationalist murders in a particular area where its clear any attack is built on purpose.
But on a macro scale, more guns tends to correlate to more gun violence. So what sounds good to an individual ultimately means the whole of the society is less safe if everyone pursues that personal viewpoint. Its a sort of Paradox of Thrift, but for guns.
