No more than fourteen percent of the gun deaths can be attributed to the homeowner's gun. The very fact that most people were killed by intruders also surely raises questions about why they owned guns in the first place and whether they had sufficient protection. Also ignored is that 98 percent of the time when people use a gun defensively merely brandishing the weapon is sufficient to stop an attack. The attacker is killed less than one out of every thousand times that a gun is used defensively. There are real risks to exaggerating the dangers of having a gun in the home.
Laws frequently have unintended consequences.
Sometimes even the best intentioned ones cost lives.