[relaxing]

of course home invasions happen, but they’re rare. and the number involving guns is much smaller. look up the statistics instead of getting scared watching the news.

so a police officer shows up at your door. you’re going to greet them with a gun drawn? that will get you killed.

i do own a firearm, but i don’t walk around with it like a cowboy. and i discourage others because of all the risks mentioned.

[dmoy]

> look up the statistics

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/ascii/vdhb.txt

As of 2010, about a million home invasions per year in the US, 250k of which end up with the occupier (owner, renter) being a victim of some violent crime.

Not a lot ending in death though.

Also I think the numbers went down a bit from 2010.

[sugarplant]

>and the number involving guns is much smaller.

lol. a threat of violence can exist without the gun. im glad you are confident in your ability to beat any random, unknown stranger (especially tweakers) in a tussle. as someone with bjj and boxing experience i would say this is unbelievably arrogant though.

>look up the statistics instead of getting scared watching the news.

ive seen the same ones that the other guy replied to you with. this is almost not worth replying to because you are just being snide and dismissive. to reciprocate, do you realize that the statistics (which you havent actually read) aren't the governing force of what happens to you in your life? statistics are a model of reality. for example, what do you think the odds would say that between when i replied to your post yesterday and now, that i experienced a break in where someone was trying to climb into my son's room at 3 in the morning? do you think my first thought was about the statistical likelihood of it? for the record i live in one of the safest states in the US. life isn't a spreadsheet with numbers on it, genius. if you are comforted by those numbers, good for you. telling others to not be scared of bad things happening to them is peak dork arrogance.