The more guns = more violence has been debunked in so many ways... Notably, refer to countries with high gun ownership and extremely low crime rates. There are several.
They were trained so hard after 9/11 to look everywhere for terrorism and to be hypervigilent at all times, that they became what they hated... Because they rarely ever found any real threat... If a police officer dies in my state we hear about it for months in the news... How tragic it is... Etc etc etc... If someone is killed by a cop they are lucky if they are mentioned namelessly... As if it is an ordinary occurrence and if they die it is assumed to be their fault anyway... So the whole 'cops are scared' thing is a joke... They are the scary ones... Because now if someone breaks into your house you have to think twice about defending yourself... Either choice could cost you your life... If it is a swat team and you jump to defend... Bam, dead... If it is an armed robbery... You hesitate out of fear because you could be getting swatted... and bam, Dead... Point is, now you have an even scarier monster to try to defend yourself from... And who do you call for an emergency when the police are the ones committing the crimes???
Gun ownership is a civil right, whether or not people like it these days... But if we start picking and choosing our civil rights we won't be in for a very good time... With the police behaving the way they have been lately... So publicly... I'd say now is a horrible time to get rid of any guns you may have..