A deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power.
Are you suggesting people who own guns should kill someone from time to time so nobody will fuck with them?
Are you suggesting people who own guns should kill someone from time to time so nobody will fuck with them?
Over 50 million households in the US own 200 million or more guns, collectively. If these guns were usually used this way, the US would be depopulated by gun violence in a decade or two.