Who owns guns and you carry?

[sorraia]

Open carry isn't allowed here, and concealed carry is darn near impossible to get, so no, I don't carry. But as crazy as this world is getting (every week, sometimes it feels like every day, I hear about someone getting shot or stabbed in an attempted robbery, a month or so ago a teenaged boy was stabbed to death in what authorities say was a botched robbery but what locals rumor was a gang initiation), I wish I did. I carry a tazer instead.

I do have a shotgun for home defense. I bought that rifle due to drug dealing neighbors I had at the time. one night one of them decided it was a great idea to get high and come onto my property. I had security cameras that caught him on tape. He walked across the screen, flipped the bird to the camera, then started harassing my horses. It was nothing more than a short walk for him to come to my back door, break in, and rape or murder myself and my infant as we tried to sleep. I have no way of knowing if that's what he really would have done, but considering what drugs can do to a person's mind (and these people weren't just doing MJ, they were using meth), make them do things they wouldn't normally do, I was not willing to take the chance.

ETA: HAD that drug addict broken into my house that night, the police would have been a MINIMUM of half an hour away. The police in my city are extremely under-staffed and extremely over-worked. They can't be every where all the time. That's no fault of their own, but it does demonstrate a very important point: In my own home, it is up to me and my husband to protect ourselves and our family.