This is my 2cents.......I already had rippers try me. As soon as I knew they were near my garden I turned on all the lights to my house, and by the time I ran outside in my underwear the fookers were running off. Now do I own guns? Yes I do. Did I grab one? No I didn't.
Most people would run off as soon as they knew the owner is coming, they didn't know if I was gonna come running out with a gun. After it all went down and I went inside my wife was like wut if they had a gun and they had shot you? I never really thought about it, I just went running out there....
After that I really thought about it, wut if they had shot me? Is it worth to die over? The answer is NO, it's not worth me dying or anyone else and I can always grow again. But not if I die or kill someone and end up in jail, next time I will just turn on all the lights to my house and anyone in their right mind would run off because in thier mind I could be grabing my gun and most people aint gonna wait around to find out.
I have a huge dog out there, so they can't really do anything unless they kill the dog. As soon as he starts barking, all the lights to the house will come on and hopefully any rippers just leave. Also I have many bells tied to fishing string all over the garden,fence,plants.....the dog will hear them and the lights will come on.
Yea I could come running out with a gun, but the thing is If I grab my gun.....I'm prob gonna use it.
You know, when I was about 19, I moved to Stockton California and while walking to the store a group of younger guys pulled over and jumped me. I had a knife in my pocket, but I never pulled it out because I knew if I did, someone was gonna die. I fought all 5 of them and lost however I attacked the biggest guy and choked him out before the rest of them took me down. Yea they beat my ass, but had it been 1v1 they all would have lost and they knew it. I actually ran into one of the other dudes a few weeks later and knocked him out with my second punch, when I walked away he was laying in the gutter next to the sidewalk......
Anyway, reason I don't grab my gun or didn't pull my knife is because if I do I'm gonna use it.....However if you were in my house, I would blow your brains out no question about it....