Is Moreno Valley a safe place to raise a family?

I currently live in a very nice part of Long Beach, but we have recently sold our house to live in a cheaper city. I went to Corona, and parts of it didn't look so bad, but it still didn't look nearly as safe as where I live now. I am 26 weeks pregnant, and when looking at the neighborhoods that our realtor brought us to, I just can't see myself safely going for walks with my newborn baby. I was seriously preparing on buying a gun, putting up bars on the windows, and telling my boyfriend to take his new rims off his car so it doesn't get stolen. I know that people steal cars with rims and sell the rims and abandon the car, I know because it happened to my boyfriend's brother, and he may not live in a city like mine, but it's defenently much nicer than Corona. Also, I read a lot of reviews on here and they didn't sound so good. I looked up a lot of beautiful homes in Moreno Valley, for much cheaper than Corona, and I was wondering is that would be a better place to raise a family? I also found a few nice houses in Riverside, most of them in gated communities, are there nice parts of Riverside that are still close to the freeway?