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Originally Posted by fatty
Nothing; nobody seems to want to break into my house for whatever reason.
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Yup :hmm:
And if they did, I have an axe within reach.
I lived in some fairly nasty places (e.g. in Russia), and honestly the best defenses I found tended to be passive ones - I mean stuff like reinforced steel doors, powerful locks and window bars (which we always had). And since we've never been anywhere close to rich, honestly, it seems absurdly stupid that someone would go through the effort of obtaining and bringing the neccesary equipment to cut through those when there's little of anything really valuable to steal - nothing that would make the break-in when the owners would have plenty of warning and would call for help and/or resist worthwhile, and nothing to really cry over if the break-in happens while you're not home. Frugalty was a good security measure there.
Meanwhile here in Canada, living mostly in smaller, lower-middle class communities, I've never once felt unsafe. Nor have I heard of anyone being seriously harmed in a break-in within miles of where I lived. So I'd sooner install an asteroid deflection device than buy a gun here. To me that seems about as paranoid, especially after living without weapons for many years in one of the world's unsafest cities (St. Petersburg, Russia).