Two home invasions in one week in my town, how do you protect your self ?

[nolabear]

193. What's the population in your town? How many car wrecks? How many divorces? How many ER visits?

What I protect myself from is constant fear. Home invasions are rare, rare, rare. RARE. I'm more likely to have a heart attack or get cancer or have a stroke. How do you protect yourself from those?

Personally, I like having a dog, but admittedly if the entire population goes batshit crazy and starts busting down doors by the millions a dog won't be much of a deterrent. Meanwhile, I don't have or want a gun and I'm perfectly comfortable.

You're peddling fear, arncha?

On edit: I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just asking. So rather than edit out the fear peddling accusation I'll just retract it. But the rest stands. If you're scared, you should do some of the suggested things, but this is NOT a common occurrence and I'd take a few steps to be reasonably safe and then trust in the generally benign nature of human beings. Considering how damn many of us there are, we don't invade homes all that much unless we're in a war, and that's mostly us doing it to them.