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LeoRavus posted...

It still doesn't make sense to me how they'd think it's any safer to act like a ding dong ditcher when someone asks who it is before busting their door down.

I'd think most people with weapons, whether they're guilty of a crime or not, would be prepared to defend themselves from an unknown intruder.

Like you said, ding dong ditcher. Home invasions rarely start like that. Its usually pranks orwell, cops. Also most people who own weapons are still too sheltered to have that training or thought process. Theyre not actually prepared to need to use them. Thats why theres hundreds of millions of guns in a country with hundreds of thousands of daily front door deliveries and only ~20,000-30,000 or so gun homicides a year with maybe a few dozen being scenarios of wrong address.

Personally, I dont even have a peephole or camera. Thats just time wasted. I always answer my door with my gun behind my back, and when I was younger it was a knife; and both are within reach of me at all times. But thats a lot to do with where Im fromwhere I live now isnt too bad.