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Originally Posted by WDF
Home Invasions happen all the time in this area and it is not the Police usually. Sometimes the victims are injured, there have been a couple fatalities in the last few years. Sometimes the perpetrators are caught, shot, or even killed.
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Then you fucking move.
Common sense tells you that you need to live in a place with a low crime rate. (And when you get older, you look into local schools too.) When I first moved to California to live with my girlfriend in 1989, she wanted to live in the Castro Valley / Hayward area. Some quick research told me that twenty miles away over the hill had a much lower crime rate. Same thing when I moved back to California - I had to move to a certain area for Playboy and picked the safest one.
If you have a choice between arming yourself because you live in a high crime area or living in nice a neighborhood where that shit isn't common... And you pick to live in the crappy area.... Well, you toss the dice, you arm yourself, and pray that you aren't shooting a police officer, your neighbor, or even worse - your kid who sneaked out - when someone crawls through the window.
Better yet, get an alarm system.