If you live in a poorer neighborhood, to all intents and purposes yes. Even assuming the police are the magical force of integrity and justice that arrives within minutes, that's more than enough time for something bad to happen that a gun could have prevented. I'm reminded of the old saying "When seconds count, the police are minutes away".
Are you such a coward that you reach your roof via ladder?
Would you rather have a gun to stop a burglar/murderer/etc or a kitchen knife?
Maybe because burglars think twice before robbing a house that could have an armed inhabitant?
You aren't likely to die of Measles, but you probably still got a shot for it.
If you have to. I'm not seeing your point here; in the close range situation that one would face in the event of a burglar, even someone with only a bit of practice wouldn't have much trouble getting off a shot. Besides that, you would have a much, MUCH easier time capturing someone if you had a gun. If you don't have a gun, have fun trying to convince an armed thief to wait for the police to arrive while threatening them with your sword, your knife, your baseball bat or your fists. More likely you would have to beat them/slash them to a bloody mess on the floor where they would have to be suicidal to try anything against a gun.
Have fun with that. I'm sure people in Lincoln Park are equally unarmed, since obviously the police will come to help them in the event of a crime. Nothing to fear, move along citizen.
Said the Roman with a chuckle
Sounds like the Taliban or maybe the insurgents in Iraq. Wait...
Yeah, we've seen how quickly the asymmetrical wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were ended by organized armies with helicopters, tanks and professional troops. Keep in mind, those are wars where the soldiers in question aren't bound quite to tightly by a bond to those they're fighting, and a fascist US would probably be accompanied by the defections of a whole bunch of soldiers.
