No I mean to yourself.
If you're in a gang then the likely hood of a gun being useful is high. In which case I would recommend it. For your average Joe you're more likely to hurt than protect yourself with a gun.
Also people aren't the most rational and brightest. Often times people shoot before thinking, happened plenty of times.
To OP. Should probably strike "revolver" and replace with "gun"
That is an often-repeated canard, a mantra for the Brady Group and suchlike... but the plain fact is, it is not true.
Gun accidents have been falling for about 40 years and are about as low as they've ever been.
Studies have shown that suicides are not predicated on the presence of a gun... people who are truly suicidal tend to use whatever method is expedient, and will use other methods if a gun isn't handy.
Annually there are a total of about 30,000 gun deaths (of all sorts... most of them are suicides, last time I checked maybe a thousand or so were accidents) in the USA.
The government-sponsored National Crime Victimization Survey estimates there are around 80,000 defensive gun useages (DGU's) per year by private citizens defending against criminals... in most no shots are fired at all.
This is probably a low-ball figure... other studies have placed annual DGUs in the hundreds of thousands if not the millions. Hard numbers are difficult to come by, as perhaps 98-99% of these incidents do not involve any shots fired or anyone injured... the citizen shows the gun and the criminal flees; most often the police are not called.
Even if we use the low-ball NCVS figures, it makes DGU's several times more common than all gun deaths of all types.. and the real DGU numbers are probably in the hundreds of thousands if you average all the credible studies done.
If you are referring to the old canard of "don't pull a gun on a criminal, he will just take it away from you and shoot you with it"..... that's nonsense. Taking a gun away from a determined person is not so childishly simple... if it were, there solution would be "if he takes your gun, just take it back and shoot him if it is THAT easy". :roll:
As for people not being rational and sensible, studies have revealed that citizens with concealed-carry permits have a lower incidence of criminal acts and mistaken shootings than the general public.
So in summary, that is an untrue statement and based on fallacious information.