A shotgun is all you really need for home defense

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they will not be at home when their home gets broken into either. this is a reality. people don't "need" guns and i'm living proof. i have stayed alive for over 57 years and never had a gun. i had an apartment i lived in once upon a time broken into and i came home while they were there and they were gone before i even saw them. they were just getting started on my place, my next-door neighbor was about to be cleaned out but because i interrupted the thieves all he lost was a clock radio.

that was over 30 years ago. nothing since.

i'm wracking my brain right now trying to think if i know anyone who did get broken into while they were home, and coming up empty.

i knew a family years ago - the father killed the son-in-law when he came home in the middle of the night. father thought it was an intruder.

my son had a friend in high school, 16 years old. talked to him one day, seemed just fine, next day my son learns he shot himself to death.

i know many families and parents of homicide victims because my daughter was killed in So California (by being run over with a car) and i became active in a group called Justice for Murdered Children and also went to grief counseling at a place called Loved Ones of Homicide Victims. lot of drive bys, domestic disturbances gone bad and there happened to be a gun close by, etc.

"Property crime is fairly low in the US compared to Canada or Europe. Violent crime is very high though, although it has decreased steadily for the past couple decades.

You should just take common precautions and not live in fear. And God forbid you do get burgled, it will likely happen when you are not home. Criminals don't want to be seen committing crime!"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120722005727AAv2jSx

i tried to look up the statistics on the odds of being home when one's home is broken into and could not find the information. but i know for me those odds are nowhere near high enough for me to have a gun. no guns for me, no guns in my house.

i don't know why this thread is not in the gungeon, i prefer not to get sucked into these discussions. it was just the title that got me, you just "need" a shotgun. no you don't! you don't "need" a gun.