"If someone breaks onto my house".

Examine someone's motives for doing this for just a moment. Usually, someone will break into another person's house to steal posessions. A person doing this will have no reason to become violent unless threatened, with violence or capture. Why would you WANT to prompt an intruder into violence for the sake of your posessions? Announce your presence and let them flee. Let them rob you if they don't. Is your life so worthless that you'll risk it for insured goods, or for your pride, or for a worthless principle that you shouldn't be robbed? If you're going to risk your life for something, do it for fun, or for something much more worthwhile than a telly and a laptop!

Getting savagely beaten with a claw hammer? This brings up the other issue here; an unrealistic fear that someone will break into your house for the purpose of deliberately harming/killing you and your family. Psychopaths of that variety are so very, very rare. And where they do occur, don't you think that someone who has planned the attack in advance is going to have the upper hand no matter how much money you spend on guns? You're going to be asleep in your bed, after all, likely until it's too late. The chances of someone randomly picking your home to commit murders just for kicks? Has it ever happened to ANYONE you've ever known, even a friend of a friend of a friend?

Filling your home with guns, putting deadly weapons in close proximity to yourself and your family, exposing yourselves to great risk, just to protect yourself against an extremely unlikely risk?

How about you douse yourself and your family in petrol and walk around with lit matches, so you're ready to protect yourself against the cold in the event of a sudden global ice age? Because that's just as sensible.
(Musuko, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 16:55, Reply)