I agree with the sending your family with a shotgun part. However, I don't agree with taking away hand guns, or high powered rifles. Fwiw, there's a difference between a high powered rifle and an automatic rifle. The problem is, there are way tooamy uniformed people out there that believe an "assault rifle" are the types of fully automatic machine guns they see in Rambo movies. They aren't. But they base their ill informed arguments based on a weapon that "looks" a certain part.
I also don't have an issue with the amount of rounds in magazine. Again, uninformed people think that bullets destroy everything in their path like they see in the movies. They don't. When someone is full of adrenalin, or high on drugs, they have the power to sustain bullet wounds. Site, a shot to the head or direct shot to the chest/heart will stop them but it's not as easy as the movies make it out to be. In real life men are shot multiple times over and over and keep on coming. I see it in proson all the time. Iates that have been shot 5-10 times yet they are still alive and kicking.
For that reason, I feel it is important to be armed when some whacked out drug addict confronts you or your family. You have seconds to decide if you will take action into your own hands or watch your family die.
With all that said, I don't own a gun, nor do I bash the thought of safety and control. But the term "safety and control" shouldn't be at the expense of safety of ones own well being or family. You can't exactly walk around in the streets with a shotgun, the number of rounds could mean life or death, and there's no difference between a rifle and assault rifle unless your talking about fully automatic, which aren't legal anywhere.