seamusTX wrote:I posted this because I wanted to show how walking in on burglars is one of the most dangerous things a person can do, even if armed. Doing it unarmed may show incredible guts, but this is a possible result.
Also, IMHO, a burglar alarm has among the best cost-benefit ratios of any home defense mechanism.
- Jim
I'm AMAZED by people who don't have or use their alarm. Ours is set every night, and every time we leave. It even has a cool little iPhone app so I can arm/disarm while out and get texts when it goes off or is armed/disarmed.
At night, I rely on it as my first warning. If it doesn't scare the intruder(s) away, I will at least have a second or 5 to grab my nightstand gun.
When I'm away, I rely on it and my gunsafe to protect my most valuable items. I figure TV's and/or a computer may get taken in a quick 'smash and grab' but there won't be time to break into the safe or take it away.
We live in a 'great neighborhood', but as a result, these houses can be targets. There's been a rash of day time, kick in the back door burglaries lately. A house 5 down from us and another on the street behind us in the last week. I work at home, so that alarm is not usually set when I'm awake, but it makes that "chime" (beep beep beep) sound every time a door or window is opened. I carry at home... always have, but now I don't have to explain to my wife "why".