Whose job is it to protect you?

I repeat this a lot, but a lot of people think the police or someone else is going to protect them from ne'er-do-wells, if they think of it at all. Usually it's "It won't happen to ME." I watched a Brinks commercial tonight. The dumbass woman is watching TV with her kids and sees an ominous shadow on the floor. We aren't told how the shadow could have got on the floor. It can't have been the troglodyte outside the window unless light curves and bends. Instead of screaming and freezing, like everyone in the world would actually do, she hustles the kids off to an upstairs bedroom while the guy outside runs up and breaks a window with a tire iron...for no reason whatsoever...and then runs away. Burglars don't break windows AFTER they have been seen and they don't break windows too small to use as an entry point, but this guy did. The alarm goes off. The mother barely gets upstairs when Brinks calls. That is interesting because the alarm autodialer to Brinks ain't finished dialing yet. "Is anything wrong?" says the dumbass Brinks guy. Hell no, pal...my window break sensor went off because of swamp gas "Yes" says the woman calmly... "someone just tried to break in." "Ma'am, I'm sending help right now." "The woman, visibly relieved, says "Thank you". But in the 20 minutes it takes for the police to get there, she and her kids could be meat on the table. See, if someone comes to your house and breaks in while the lights and TV are on, they already know who is in the house, they are obviously not afraid and intend to do something you won't like.

Apparently the alarm scared off the burglar who was a moron anyway for not noticing the "Brinks" signs all over the house and failing to cut the phone line and the wire to the outside audible alarm. But eventually the police get there and explain to the woman "This could have been a lot worse". "Thank you" she replies..a totally inappropriate thing to say in the circumstance. Yes, it could. Instead of an idiot, it might have been someone with enough sense to kick down the door, grab a kid, and tell the mom to tell the Brinks guy it was a mistake and make her turn off the alarm. Or break in before she armed the alarm which people do, if at all, when they go to bed. Or picked the house next door which doesn't have an alarm. Or go "Meow, Meow' in the bushes until the kids get mom to go see about the cat.

Do you have security cameras all over? That's good. It will help the police figure out who kidnapped and murdered your daughter. Do you have a dog? Even better. Dogs are wonderful. Failing a firearm and proficiency with it, a good dog about 120 pounds is the next best thing. The intruder won't have heard the dog barking when he cased the joint and won't have brought a pork chop laced with rat poison to feed it before he comes for you.

Look, by the time you dial 911 the guy has already got into your house and unless you can defend yourself you have no chance. There is a book out called "Dial 911 and die". There are 5 MILLION violent crimes in the US every year. There would be about twice that many but for armed citizens. 911 is nothing more than government sponsored dial-a-prayer.

Many crimes occur because people simply refuse to defend themselves. They don't believe it can happen to them. They think the police are less than 30 seconds away at all times. It simply isn't true. Where I live, the police don't go to at least a non-trivial percentage of their calls. They are busy and sometimes they just don't get around to it.

You better forget the idea of living in a society in which the government can protect you. The police are NEVER called until AFTER you are victimized or dead. If you want to protect your family, YOU need to accept the primary responsibility. You can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon in most states (with some notable exceptions). You can hire a gunslinger (like me) who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon in all fifty states. You can get a Taser in many states. You can get pepper spray. You can always get Home and Garden Raid which sprays up to 25 feet and expend a can in an attacker's face. It will probably stop him or her unless they are drugged up.

The thing I usually hear is "Oh, I couldn't hurt anyone". OK. Look through a forensic textbook (Brent Turvey has some good ones out) and see what will happen to you if one of these bad people gets hold of you. After that it's "A GUN??? Suppose a child found it?" Suppose you don't leave it around for a child to find. Suppose you teach your sissy x-box playing brats not to play with guns. If they shoot themselves anyway they are doing the genepool a favor.

I am not advocating violence or crime, but GUNS are merely expensive rocks. The person's MIND is the weapon, not the method. Don't blame guns for killing people. Blame cars. Guns kill people like pencils cause misspelled words.