How to protect against burglary

You make a good point don_s.

Burglary usually means no one is home. Agreed.

And I don't condone the "Uncle Joe Biden", "shoot through an open doorway" approach either. Know your target before you put your booger hook on the bang switch.

Shakey

With the introduction of low consumption LED lights, there is absolutely no reason why you should not leave your outside lights on all night. Burglars love the dark and hate well lit houses.

It doesn’t hurt to leave a pair of size 13 work boots at your door entrance along with a dog water bowl the size of a small blow up swimming pool.

Max, over half the states in this country have some kind of stand your ground law that goes back as far as the late 1800s. I have no problem with that. I own guns as well. It's the abuse of that law that people use to, say, stalk a kid who is of a different race and kill fantasizing you're some kind of vigilante that I alluded to and anyone with half a brain who's current with events would know that. Even you.

All the best,
Nonoise

John Hopkins University student living off campus encountered a late night break in burglar to his apartment. The perpetrator lunged at him, while the student was armed with a Samurai sword. One swing took off the assailant's hand, who bleed to death at the scene. The assailant also had 27 prior burglary arrests and charges.

Ebm say's: "do you feel lucky, Dude?? HA