Guns and other weapons are not a guarantee you will survive, particularly when outnumbered and not on your guard because you are dealing with neighbors.  Weapons are tools, and indeed almost any object can be a weapon. Surely most of us own things people might want to steal.  And surely most of us grasp that there is no certain strategy, tactic or physical thing that guarantees survival in all circumstances.  It is poor analysis to conclude that guns are generally bad, or that they generally solve confrontations either.  Life is complex and the art is to live and die as well as you can:  the only certainty is you can't get out of it alive!