You may only get into worse trouble. You might attract
heavyier caliber return fire, or you may become all that
much more attractive a target for theives who want your gun
& ammo.

Not true. In New Orleans the only houses that were spared were the
ones with people and weapons inside. Home owners with weapons
protected themselves, their loveones and their STUFF! If you didn't
have a weapon in your home the thugs/criminals were just walking in and
telling anyone inside that they were taking what they wanted and that
there was nothing you could do about it and the police would not be
responding.

Unless one has the capability... physical, intellectual,
emotional, whatever.... to deliberately kill another human
being without so much as an eyeblink of hesitation... one is
better off with a different means of deterrent than a gun.

Under anarchy I wouldn't blink.

AR15s are also the prefered weapon when 200 zombies are coming down
your front street.