Off-topic: Something for home defense?

[E-Revonut]

Get the shotgun and hang it high on the wall where you can just barely reach it and don't keep anything around for the kids to use as a step stool to get to it. However if you do get a gun I recomend teaching your kids about it and taking them with you to a range to shoot it. Although they may be far to young to actualy learn to use it and fire it let them see how loud it is and how much damage it can do. Growing up there where guns in my house and my brother and I both left them alone. There was no gunsafe until I was old enough to start my own collection and then my step mom thought that a safe would be a good idea for so many guns. I had a key to it though. First step to gun safety is gun education

[PBO]

Just to apply some objective thinking...

Seems that actual incidents where anyones home(s) have actually been 'invaded' are still quite rare (or only a few bothered to respond to my question) & nobody has used a gun to repel an intruder either. Therefore it would make sense that a gun (or multiples of) is only required in a very small number of examples...?Personally, gun storage is a profound concern for me. I remember being a kid pretty well...I remember that I knew every combination, lock & method of getting into everything my family owned. I remember removing window panes or picking locks to see presents before they were given (& to act surprised when they were given) to me. I remember feeling like nothing was out of reach....considering this, I can confidently say that if we had a gun in our house, it could have been locked to a cloud or rainbow & I would have provided myself access to it within one day tops

Not that I have any right to dictate how anyone should handle their personal responsibilities but I'd be concerned about a gun in my house, more so with kids - my kids especially....my 6yr old son hacked an internet account & bought himself about $500 worth of games a few weeks ago. In my view, the probability of someone being hurt by 'my' gun is higher than the chance of using for its intended purpose

Also, a family friend arrived at his secluded country property to find it being robbed...he went to his shed & grabbed a rifle & bailed up the intruders next to the van they were filling up. He didn't realise that while he had two under gun point, a third who was inside saw what was happening, circled around behind our friend & blew his head of at the neck from behind...the police think there was three intruders because there were two silhouettes in the blood spatter + one to pull the trigger. He may have had a different result if he hadn't of 'set the pace' by using his gun first??