John's reply to this might be that I am assuming bullets will be fired. My answer to this is that we are again possibly looking at an urban-rural distinction here. In the major cities, we now have a phenomenon of young criminals pre-paying their funerals because they expect to be dead before age 25. And they are firing shots at each other, with the knowledge that all their peers are packing, and those shots are flying through urban windows and walls and killing people. People are taking Route 95 to southern states, lining up a local resident to help out, and buying loads of weapons that they truck back to New York.
Guns are an environmental problem.
From a practical standpoint, there are ways that you can preserve your lifestyle without harming mine. One state did it by imposing purchase limits. But this is not what I usually hear when I talk to Second Amendment advocates. Look at the murder levels in New York City. Yes, but the guns are purchased from your next door neighbor, the gun dealer.