In this case, I'd place a fridge just inside where they would most likely break in & have it sparsely filled with the worst tasting / cheap beer that you can find. So when they start robbing you by drinking that beer, they'll leave regretting the decision to violate your home.
When I was a prison guard, one of the more excitable guards emptied a canister through the cuff port of a cell in the PC wing (think solitary confinement). ...the whole canister. ...and it was one of the big ones (think small fire extinguisher). Needless to say, the inmate decided to comply afterwards.
The KSG is definitely on my Wishlist!
When someone is illegally in your home, the time for niceties is long over.
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Not lethal, but they'll wish they were dead.
I have a box. This is my box, not your box. You walk inside my box uninvited and I cant tell within a second that you might not be hostile, you have just made the decision to commit suicide and its unfortunate that you decided to have me be the one to put you down.
You see, if I come out of the gate with my 12 gauge roaring, then I miss out on my opportunity to practice my waterboarding and Pipecutter-to-the-knee techniques. Sometimes it can be funner to play with your food a bit, and the Bear Spray will definitely make it a spicy affair
True Canadian anti-theft mechanism. Also, a note saying "sorry for the bad beer . . .and the axe to the neck, knee, chest, and head."
I think the main thing about Americans and their Guns that many Europeans don't understand is the same thing that a lot of Americans fail to understand about it all as well. Sure, guns are nice to have in a robbery, but that is not why we are granted them as a birthright. We have guns to keep those in power above us in line. Full stop, that simple. If you look at most despots in history, you will start to notice a trend that the people they've abused were never well armed. This unbalance of power invites oppression if left unchecked, we feel, so we keep a nice level baseline of arms out in the wild. The Japaneese shot down all plans of a land invasion of the US during WWII because they envisioned a rifle behind every blade of grass. And whether they say it out loud or not, our politicians understand that those same rifles are prepared for domestic enemies as well as foreign ones. That is the bit that nobody really talks about...
I think that's why I am so thorough about the measures I have in place to protect my home and, more importantly, my wife and daughter. I use to be blissfully unaware of these things. I specifically remember thinking how unrealistic the safety precautions were around Anthony Hopkins in silence of the lambs. He's just a little guy. You just punch him in the face and it's over. Then I took a job as a prison guard and I met people like him. Not just one. Not just a few, but hundreds.
I know I said I'd bow out of this conversation but this has really caught me - so rising gun ownership in the US, if everyone was getting one for the right reason, should not be taken as them feeling insecure and wanting personal protection, it is a sign that the population feels the current government is overstepping its limits and is preparing for shit to go down...?
I don't think it's quite that black and white for the average owner. On an overall scale, yes. It's part of the checks and balances built into the system. I don't think it's much "preparing for shit to go down" though. It's more "we're keeping an eye on you" for most people. In alot of ways it's the fulcrum, the tipping point. If the government actually moves to disarm the population, said shit might actually go down. But that will never happen. It's hard baked into the constitution.
Thanks, yeah that makes sense. Nothing, is ever totally one way and the list of reasons to obtain a firearm must be as veried as recreational sport-target use to defense from large dangerous animals in some of the more remote parts of the country. Still, very interesting that it is indeed true the second amendment is the thing that allows and is always quoted when speaking about ownership/regulated ownership to ranged weapons.
It is not really a question of need.
Though we have the reassurance of our right to self protection as result of the very suspicious nature of the Founders, I don't think people are buying guns in record numbers because they're seriously considering overthrowing the government. Rather, they feel life is too uncertain. Riots, burning, looting, even killing all on the rise and especially the democratic cities not only doing nothing, but talking about defunding the police. Who wouldn't go buy a shotgun?
