Statistically, you're an extreme outlier if you know 5 people who died of gunshot wounds. Of those 5 though, two were killed by cops. Can I draw from the fact

Statistically, you're an extreme outlier if you know 5 people who died of gunshot wounds. Of those 5 though, two were killed by cops. Can I draw from the fact that you included those that you don't want police to have firearms either? When you say "killed himself" for 1 and 2, do you mean deliberately? Again though, you're an extreme outlier. And even more so that you don't know personally a single individual who even once was saved by proximity to a firearm, such as for example saved from domestic violence by the arrival of armed police. I live around guns and people with guns, there are literally hundreds of guns around me within a quarter mile radius right now, I only have three gun deaths of anyone I have ever known, one was a suicide, one was an old lady who defended her orphanage from an armed intruder, and another was a man shot by his ex girlfriend while he attempted to assault her. The last two of course are examples of lives saved or made better by possessing a firearm. Then there are the other reasons to have them besides personal protection. Particularly there's the ethereal "deterrent to tyranny" you hear cited, but practically speaking there's also the ability to procure meat without a massive supply chain and the ability to defend against wildlife in areas where that is a tangible threat.