I just can't with these posts form you.
Here is the REALITY is this. Kidde sold millions of fire extinguishers last year. Most will never be used. Most people will go through their entire lives without ever experiencing a house fire of any kind. So therefore, having smoke alarms and fire extinguishers is unneeded and paranoid.
Not sure there is any penalty, and practically no consequences to using a fire extinguisher when it's not really needed. Maybe pulling a fire alarm will get you a fine if you over react. can't say that is true if you pull a gun or use a gun when it wasn't 'necessary' - and that is often defined AFTER the fact.
I have used fire extinguishers and I bet if you ask around many people have.
You speak to thousands of people re: if they ever used their guns for defense? Cool. I'll spot you 10,000 people. Violent crime rate in the US is 386 per 100,000 people. Shrink that down to 10,000 and you are sub 40. Now it is safe to assume that a lot of the violent crime happens in urban environments. Let's cut that violent crime rt in half. So in the 10,000 people you speak to about this, it is likely less than 20 have been a victim of violent crime. Of those 20, how many were armed at the time and could have defended themselves? PA has about a 10% rate of LTCF (CCW) for the population. I doubt many carry every day. So basically, your sampling size means almost nothing.
Statistics can be manipulated - 3 out of 4 dentists say use this toothpaste. Well, I just keep asking dentists until 3 of 4 say what I want - I may have to ask 20,000 to get the 3 in a row. It's true - but not accurate.
11% I've heard before. Would like to see the details behind that. I live a county of 168,000 folks. Figure what, half are kids, so 80,000 adults. 5,000 permits are issued by our county sherrif. Well below 11%. By my math anyway.
And MANY have a CCW in PA because of a bad law - you can legally have a gun in your car IF: going from/to home and gun store, range or hunting (with a hungtin license). If you stop FORANY REASON - gas, piss, eat - you have committed a felony. Bye Bye guns. Unless you have a CCW. PA is also an open carry state - fine, until you get in your car then it's concealed...felony again. I guess you could argue walmart is a gun store...LOL
Move someplace safe. OK, please tell me where safe is. Over the last 20 years, as a percentage, towns with less than 10,000 people have seen a growth in violent and non violent crimes. They are still the lowest, but there has been a measurable uptick, while most urban areas have seen a measurable downturn. Urban areas are still way more violent, but the statistics hold.
I assume you have some device that predicts when and where crimes will happen. Please sell me a copy of that device, and I will never be a victim of crime.
Common sense has a LOT to do with being safe. Where you shop, when, where you park, how you walk to the store from your car, how you carry yourself, etc, etc. While nothing is 100% certain, other than you probably won't be hit and killed by a bus in a corn field, you are in control of much of your safety.
Walk near the curb and look around - vs walk next to the building looking at your phone.
Shop at 8 am not 10 pm.
Lock your doors (car, home). Look before you get out of your car in a parking lot - park near a light, near the door vs out in the boonies at the edge of the lot.
Like driving a car with 250k miles and nearly bald tires and a 6 year old battery...vs a 3 year old car with 40k and new tires and battery..which is 'safer', more reliable?
I know, I will only go to church, those are safe.
Or I will only go to "gun free zones" because those are safe.
Or I will only frequent businesses that proudly sow "NO guns allowed" because those are safe.
Wait a minute. Bad things happen in those places as well, sometimes terrible things.
Your, and I am being extremely loose with the word here, "logic" is flawed at best.
I live in PA. I live in an area where nothing ever happens, and I carry every day, no matter where I go, and have a firearm within reach in every room in my house. Why? Because you never know when the bad thing will happen. I am not paranoid, nor a Rambo. I have no desire to EVER use my firearms to take a life.
That being said, I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
