There is concealed carry. For out of the home. There are home weapons for, well, the home. As per stockpile... How bottles of booze do you have? One kind of vodka? Stick with just one kind of beer? Like only one white wine? So, if you own more, is that considered a stockpile? Do you HONESTLY need more than one variety? Do you believe that drunk driving. which has killed more people than guns, should be used as a reason to limit your freedom to purchase more than one type of alcohol, as people get killed by drunk drivers? When a drunk drivers plows into a car and kills 4 people, isn't that as bad as someone with an AK shooting people? So, ban cars. Ban the liquor that relieved that person of their personal responsibility. Stabbings with knives? Been in ER's a good bit and can tell you knifings blow out gun wounds many times over as violent crimes. Go ask your ER doctors what they see more. Inner city as well.
It is fun to shoot things at the range with different firearms. And, much as I am no John Wayne, I have been in situations where a gun has been been pulled and can without hesitation say that if it was either me or the fine upstanding criminals trying to kick in my door who were going to walk out of the situation, pulling that trigger to save me, my wife or my kids would have been instinctual. I agree. Some training can make you cocky and therefore useless in the event of a real life situation. But if it came down to protecting your family, and all you had was a gun while someone came in, and God forbid, went for your wife or tried to hurt your kids, would you simply yell "Help" and "Run" or would you fire? But, being a non gun owner, which is fine, what would you do? Think about that on your next 4 day as you wave goodbye to your family. My wife is well trained and respectful of guns. But is willing, I hope, to protect our kids in an event like the above. I sure as heck hope she never has to, as the ramifications, mentally, last for years after. But at least your pulse is still going and you will have the time to work the issues out.
I have no intention of moving to Ruby Ridge. But it may be a possibility if the government wants to take away my freedoms. These freedoms were paid for in blood. There is no reason they shouldn't be defended with such. If you like being herded like sheep, given all your basic needs on a government platter and feel the need to be over-governed by people who will make decisions for you, have at it. But do it in Russia, or Cuba. Leave America, land of the FREE, to those who like it like that.