The police CANNOT protect you. They are not bodyguards. They will only show up after-the-fact to take a report and investigate the crime, after you are dead. This is the harsh reality. The best way to protect yourself against physical violence is with a gun–and to be trained in how to use it in close-quarter self-defense situations.
John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime validates that resisting assault with a gun results in less harm to the victim than with any other method of defense, including being compliant. Submitting to a sadistic sub-human predator who gets a charge out the power trip of being able to torture you is not wise. The news media will probably not report on the grisly details of your naked, abused, and dismembered corpse. Neither will they speculate on the humiliating and excruciating torture you endured before dying.
The database for the third edition of More Guns, Less Crime is FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for the entire US for 26+ years. It is by far the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the effects of gun control laws.