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In Reply to: RE: Of course not... posted by jamesgarvin on February 19, 2009 at 07:26:00

burglars.
Their intention was to burgle EMPTY homes and they never carried, "heat." Their greatest fear was being caught as they exited with goods.
Now, there is a class of folks that get methed up and are total amateurs. They usually come into homes in small groups, heavily armed. For a homeowner to begin a gun battle is nuts: bullets don't discriminate children from adult. The likelihood a gunfight will favor the perp, in that situation, is high. Dirty Harry is a mythical figure.
If you are so worried about break-ins, I suggest you reinforce a bathroom, keep a cell phone in it, and school your kids to be prepared to go into it when you wake them up. That is the safest, most sane recourse. Confronting professionals that spend half their lives practicing violence isn't playing the odds. It's suicidal.

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Your 'younger days' - jamesgarvin 08:56:42 02/20/09 (0)
are faraway, at least forty years ago. Got news for you. Society is a little different today. So are criminals. You need to meet the new breed of burglar. They carry guns. The issue you miss is not whether the burglar is or is not carrying a firearm, the issue is whether the homeowner can take a chance that the burglar is not carrying a fire arm, and would react violently to being discovered.

You apparently prefer to take the chance. I'd not take the chance. The burglar would be stopped before he made it to my children. There is no threat of 'lead flying' because my children would be safely ensconsed in a safe place. But that burglar would not have the opportunity to move about my house on the off chance he meets my kids.

You are obviously willing to take that chance. To each his own.
RE: In my rather wild younger years, I happened to be friends with several - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 23:56:40 02/19/09 (0)
"Confronting professionals that spend half their lives practicing violence isn't playing the odds. It's suicidal."

So these harmless burglers I shouldn't be blowing away are now professional at being violent?

If gangs are entering empty houses they won't get into a confrontation - at least if they've done their homework - and won't get blown away.

The amateurs are more likely to be drug addicts, of whom I have a lot of experience, and if they enter a premises they take the risk and must suffer the consequences of being confronted.

Best Regards,
Chris redmond.

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