By buying a gun and keeping it in your house you move yourself from a population basin of “I will never shoot myself” to one where “If I follow these dozen rule

By buying a gun and keeping it in your house you move yourself from a population basin of “I will never shoot myself” to one where “If I follow these dozen rules perfectly I will probably never shoot myself.” You go from a stable basin to an astable mountaintop basin where you are responsible for the maintenance of the banks.