Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder
(www.theguardian.com)
"Most of the time they didn't deserve it" eh?
Well, all gun deaths per year including accidents, murder, and suicide, hover around 60,000/yr.
However, even by our most conservative estimate, conservative in this case meaning only using verifiable police reports and completely discounting the most common type of armed defense: defensive display, Harvard has estimated "the good guy with a gun" being effective 100,000 x/yr.
Clearly we can see that 100,000 defensive gun uses is 40,000 more than 60,000. This indicates quite clearly that actually "most" of the time it is deserved, as "most" of the time by 40,000 it is self defense.
You’re afraid of a threat that magnified by your fears and misperceptions
I really hate that I have to say this, but literally no u.
I’m afraid of your “self-defense”
Well don't attempt to kill me or someone I care about in my presence, simple as. Think you can handle that? Should be pretty damn easy tbh.
or your lack of securing your weapon.
Well don't make people leave them in the car to come into your store, the only time mine are less secure than I'd like are when the law requires it to be.
Be different all you want, but it’s a problem when it kills innocent people.
If a man is stabbed in the park do you feel guilty for having knives in the kitchen? Unless I'm the one who does the bad thing I will not feel responsible for it, I am not responsible for the actions of another sentient being.
Where are their rights?
They have them. Just because rape exists, do you think a woman has no right to her body? Similarly, just because murder exists, that doesn't mean the murderer wasn't trampling the murdered's rights, actually that's literally the exact reason murder is called "a crime." And the reason legal self defense is a thing, too, your right to self defense is to secure your right to life, specifically.