For anyone still considering a gun for home protection, if the caveats that most people killed at home by guns are killed by their own guns isn’t enough to discourage you, and you feel like a raving Nazi home invasion is going to be a regular part of the American experience in the coming administration, and you’re not someone who grew up in gun culture, aren’t comfortable around them, don’t understand that keeping a round chambered is something even professionals outside of active combat activity rarely do because it’s stupid and unsafe, then can I offer one small piece of unsolicited advice?

If you really must have a gun, get a shotgun. Pump action. Not semi-auto.
1. They make a very loud noise when you pull the trigger and will likely scare away the Nazi horde chewing through the front door.
2. You don’t have to be super-accurate with them. Just point in the general direction you want to shoot, pump a shell into the chamber, and pull the trigger.
3. And this is most important. A shotgun filled with any load, even buck shot, isn’t going to go through more than one wall. So your odds of accidentally shooting your neighbor in the head while they sleep because you’re cleaning your gun…again…are next to zero.

Remember, the life you save by not keeping a round in the chamber could be your own.