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My point was, don't worry about it, just like with lightning strikes and shark attacks. By arming yourself daily, in the 1 in a billion chance of being in the area of an active shooting, you actually increase the danger of harming your family. Not only do you chance having an accidental firing of your own gun in your families prescence, but in the extremely unlikely event of being in an active shooting scenario, you put a very large target on yourself, unless you manage to completely catch the shooter off guard at point blank range.
Even people who practice with their handguns daily have trouble hitting a distant target when adrenaline kicks in. So if you miss, you now have the shooters full attention at you, and your family.