I think that most of us have heard this said from time to time. The regressive left from ten years ago that used to believe in police tried to dodge the fact that this saying is backed by logic and data and still insist that you don't need a gun, "Just call a cop." The modern regressive left is entirely brainless -- they want to abolish the police and have the police take away your guns.
Still, let's put this into real life perspective in regard to where I live now.
Phoenix is the second fastest growing city in the country. Most of those transplants are coming from California. Not all of those people are harmless, pot-smoking, man-bun wearing hipsters.
We also have almost zero new cops. When cities are being burned down over a police officer shooting a knife-wielding manic who was a direct threat, reasonable people who might consider being cops choose other jobs.
Right now, the average response to the most urgent 911 calls in the Phoenix area is 22 minutes.
So, if a coked up, naked man brakes into your house at 2am with a two by four and starts making his way to your daughter's bedroom, which happened in Arizona not too long ago, your anti-gun argument is that the father shouldn't have had the ability nor the choice to shoot the mother fucker in the head and kill him. Your argument is that the father should have taken on the armed bastard with his fists; or, he should call 911 and let the dick do what he wants with the daughter for 22 minutes and hope for the best. If you're on the modern, regressive left, you don't even believe that the father should call the cops.
Do you understand how insane your worldview looks in the face of reality? 22 minutes is an eternity for a bad guy to do horrifying damage during a home invasion and that's when victims are most equipped to call the police. If you're just a woman walking home from work in the middle of the night and you get assaulted, and all you have is your phone, you'd better hope that you've got a merciful assailant because the Democrats think that you should just take the beating.