i like your comparison to the two events. while the first one obviously supports the cause for every home to have a gun, the second one shows what can happen in a split second if proper precautions are not taken. kudos to you LOM for keeping them safely locked away. But then this begs to be answered... if they are locked away how accessible are they for that moment when someone is trying to break in? seems to defeat the purpose.
I still can't get over all this home invasion stuff I am hearing coming from the usa. We hardly hear of 1 home invasion a year in Vancouver here, and we are the second largest city in Canada, and have the absolute poorest neighborhood in Canada with the Downtown eastside; but it is still relatively safe to walk the streets , even at night.
Don't know how you guys got to where you are now, but I do feel for you and hope things do get better. We can only hope. Good post lom. We hear of these things all the time coming from the american news channels we get here. Still boggles my mind though.
Last summer i had a home invasion the wife was on the couch asleep the dog barked i came up loaded found nothing went outside around the house saw nothing so i didnt think it was nothing until the wife woke me up in the morning saying where the fuck her pocketbook. The guy or girl came in the window in the kitchen found the wife's pocketbook went back out the window and closed the window behind them. There was a ceramic pot on the porch when he went back out the window he stepped on the pot and it made a noise which woke up the dog. So if the wife's pocketbook wasn't there this person would be dead today because they were in the house and they knew people were home. The chief of police lives in my neighborhood he said to me if you shoot shoot to kill. We have the castle act we no longer have to retreat i can use deadly force to protect me and mine.