I’m not sure what area you can live in to assure “you’re safe from violence”.
One can certainly mitigate it with wise choices.
Certainly, as others have said, if you’re afraid of guns, for heavens sake (and everyone around you) please don’t get one! You’ll be more of a danger than a benefit.
You quoted me so I assume you meant me, if you did not that is OK to. But being afraid of guns is not the issue, it is being concerned about the folks that wield them.
If you do have weapons (any kind of weapon) and don’t train and practice with them, please get rid of them.
More true words have not been typed here so far. I have shot competition pistol for over 25 years, in Canada, the UK and The US and have in the past earned many awards for IPSC, Tactical, Marksmanship, Skeet & a Training Certification.
The availability of good SAFE Public target ranges here where we live are few and far between, and not so easy to get to. The ones we have are poorly run, not regulated, and I have stopped going as a result. The ones that are, are not open to the public and reserved for Military and Law enforcement.
In Colorado, California, Canada and the UK, there were great clubs that were well run and a pleasure to patronize & use.
The problem in most of the USA as I see it is I think is that we let pretty much anyone have them, and encourage it.
I learned this when I went to our local CCP Training, supposedly run by a certified instructor (2 actually). If I were doing the training I would not have passed about 50% of the attendees. Most folks did not know how to dismantle and render their weapons inoperative, and were not taught how to do so. 2 ladies that were there could hardly hold the weapons they had brought with them, let alone shoot them straight. This did not seem to bother the instructors as long as everybody passed. I did ask them and the criteria is simply to make it through the day, answer a small questionnaire, and then they passed. Hardly a good measure to allow someone to carry a gun on their person into a public place. We did have a very brief target session but about 30% of the folks could not hit the target at 50 - 25 feet and could just about do it at 15. The 2 ladies mentioned above had to borrow a smaller pistol to even take part.
So I am not against guns, in fact I love responsible target shooting. Sadly I cannot hunt or shoot Skeet now because if my Pacemaker.
And for those who say it is it person not the gun, I agree. We should NOT be giving those people the opportunity to test the theory.