On the contrary, I find it much easier to live with guns in my house knowing that there are many criminals out there with weapons, and if one of them decides to enter my home uninvited and with the intention of harming my family, I can blow his fucking head off to protect my family. I don't call that living in fear, I call it insurance with peace of mind.
People who break into homes knowing that somebody is there only do so with the assumption they aren't armed. In this case, they probably knew the parents were gone and didn't think a 14 year old boy was a problem. Fortunately for those kids, the intruder was wrong. That boy might need a lifetime of therapy to deal with the taking of a human life at such a young age, but I'm sure he would rather be in therapy than dead, or forced to live with one of his siblings being killed.
Something does not turn good if the civil have to protect themselves against badguy. Maybe society need to be change.
I'm not sure how many Police Stations there are or how many ACTIVE DUTY Poloice officers there are where you a from, but here, there are very few. In My particular case, the Police department itself is located on the OTHER side of town. We have a small number of police on duty at a time, they cover a Large area of several square miles. If you are so lucky to catch someone trying to get in before they actually make it inside your home, and you call 911 emergency number, you still have to survive while waiting on them. Again, in my particular case, It can be anywhere from a minute or 2, up to 15 to 30 minutes before any police arrive. Just yesterday afternoon I heard on my scanner a call for police to go to a certain location, they reply from all ON DUTY officers was, " It's gonna be a while." It was 15 minutes or longer before anyone came back to say they were on the way. I hear it very often when someone has come home to find someone in their house, and we have so few officers that it's a quite a while before they can get there to assist. Usually the intruder has suffcient time to get away.
Yes, I'll keep a gun in my house.
It's the same here Simple. Very rural so it can take quite a while for someone to respond when they are on the opposite side of the county.