Originally Posted by
Colorado Luckydog
Here's another thought Nomercy, If you are going to a bar in downtown New York at 2.30 in the morning should you carry a 40, 45 or a sawed off shotgun? The correct answer is, stay the hell out of the bars at 2:30 am. The same goes with your security at home. The weapon is not near as important as a few simple security precautions. The old saying "an ounce of precaution is worth a pound of cure" applies here. I hope you start teaching that in your class.
First things first, I'm not sure how being safe in my own house links to "a downtown NY bar at 2:30am" (which the last time I was there, is not a terribly dangerous place anyway), but we can spin this as far as you want it... What should I carry if I'm hiding in a bunker outside Fallujah? Easy answer is that I shouldn't have signed on the line...
I'm not sure how you misconstrued the point of my thread into "don't lock your doors, just keep a gun on your nightstand", but I apologize if you misinterpreted my point.
The point I make is that no matter how well you plan for things, there are no guarantees. My motto, which coinsides with "an ounce of prevention", is prepare for the worst and then hope for the best. My own home is a gated property in a rural area with a driveway "dinger" (doorbell linked to an electric eye across the front gate), with outside motion lights, modern steel security doors and windows (thank you uncle sam for the "green home tax credit"), an up-to-date security system, and both inside and outside dogs... However, it's a common occurance that after a night shift, one our hired hands can come in and have coffee in the morning, or my fiancee can come home from work over lunch, both without waking me up.
An ounce of prevention might be worth a pound of cure, but the hospital still has cures waiting on the shelf. Sure, I can guarantee that I don't get into a wreck if I never take the car out of the garage, but that's not how the world works. I can improve my odds of survivial by buckling my seatbelt and driving safely, as well as owning a vehicle with high safety ratings... But frankly, some times, sh*t happens, as they say... So when I made it to the hospital after being hit by a drunk driver at NOON on a Tuesday, I was pretty glad they had a CURE for internal bleeding and a crushed pelvis. All the precautions in the world still don't prevent EVERYTHING, so at that point, having a little "cure" laying around sure doesn't hurt...
As for me, I'll prepare for the worst and hope for the best, but your mileage may vary... If someone makes it past my security systems and precautions, I then I have a PRECAUTION sitting on my nightstand to CURE the situation.