Firearm-related deaths are half of what they were a generation ago, despite the country's population growing to 330 million people in that time.  This is equal to the number of automobile-related deaths, and is less than half of those killed from alcohol-related causes, which caused so much social dysfunction the country passed a Constitutional amendment banning its sale and production.  Out of approximately 100 million gun owners, about 11,000 people were murdered by someone with a firearm; that means you have a 0.00011% chance of being murdered by a gun owner.

But leaving those empirical facts aside, my natural right to defend myself and my family is not up for debate, no matter what you deem to be "responsible gun ownership."