Reply #26: Every woman or man is already her or his own guard.

[TPaine7]

All arming does is give the less athletic, the less experienced at street-fighting, the aged, the small, the slow, the handicapped, the sick and the outnumbered a better chance.

If you are assaulted, the odds of a police officer being able to protect you is vanishingly small. No society can provide guards, armed or otherwise, to protect every person.