How would high gun ownership help you against someone sneaking into your home and holding you at gunpoint - before you get the chance to get your gun? Of course, this question is theoretical, because obviously this did not happen in those areas.
The stereotypical olde tyme family had 3 kids and a big dog. Retriever or Shepherd, usually. Beyond just somehow sleeping through someone walking through your house, that was usually sufficient secondary alarms. Someone shoots the dog, you shoot them. Because you DO have your gun on-hand. One in the bedroom, one on the mantle in the family room, sometimes one by the door.
If it's a farmstead or plantation house, even more animals would be about and easily startled by strangers. People call cows dumb, but if someone untoward came towards my grandfather's farm, they'd have three bulls surrounding them real quick, any time of day.
What I don't get is: why leave your door unlocked? If your dogs getting shot serve as advance warning, how about having your door being bashed in serve as that?
It's inconvenient. Someone might need to come in at night. A relative, or a neighbor in a jam. You want to be helpful to them.
That's literally the thought process. Bad people will break in anyways, so only good people will be kept out by the locks, so why lock it? And of course, people didn't bash a door in, they used lockpicks, it was a more elegant time. Or at least that was the perception.
Now, we see things differently. We see things in a Modern Current Year lens.
Or they'd just bust a window, or come in through an open window.
Because maybe you DID lock your door, but there'd be at least one window open for the breeze, or not locked, and they probably didn't have screens on them yet. But hey, it's not hard to cut through a bit of window-screen.
It's inconvenient. Someone might need to come in at night. A relative, or a neighbor in a jam. You want to be helpful to them.
That is a sort of social fabric I've never known. If I want someone to come in, I hand him an extra set of keys. I probably couldn't even sleep if I knew that someone could come in at will.
And of course, people didn't bash a door in, they used lockpicks, it was a more elegant time. Or at least that was the perception.
Interesting. But at the same time, open doors might tempt people who don't know how to lockpick. Not trying to be argumentative, it's just so foreign to me that it's almost unbelievable.
How would high gun ownership help you against someone sneaking into your home and holding you at gunpoint - before you get the chance to get your gun? Of course, this question is theoretical, because obviously this did not happen in those areas.
The stereotypical olde tyme family had 3 kids and a big dog. Retriever or Shepherd, usually. Beyond just somehow sleeping through someone walking through your house, that was usually sufficient secondary alarms. Someone shoots the dog, you shoot them. Because you DO have your gun on-hand. One in the bedroom, one on the mantle in the family room, sometimes one by the door.
If it's a farmstead or plantation house, even more animals would be about and easily startled by strangers. People call cows dumb, but if someone untoward came towards my grandfather's farm, they'd have three bulls surrounding them real quick, any time of day.
What I don't get is: why leave your door unlocked? If your dogs getting shot serve as advance warning, how about having your door being bashed in serve as that?
It's inconvenient. Someone might need to come in at night. A relative, or a neighbor in a jam. You want to be helpful to them.
That's literally the thought process. Bad people will break in anyways, so only good people will be kept out by the locks, so why lock it? And of course, people didn't bash a door in, they used lockpicks, it was a more elegant time. Or at least that was the perception.
Now, we see things differently. We see things in a Modern Current Year lens.
Or they'd just bust a window, or come in through an open window.
Because maybe you DID lock your door, but there'd be at least one window open for the breeze, or not locked, and they probably didn't have screens on them yet. But hey, it's not hard to cut through a bit of window-screen.
That is a sort of social fabric I've never known. If I want someone to come in, I hand him an extra set of keys. I probably couldn't even sleep if I knew that someone could come in at will.
Interesting. But at the same time, open doors might tempt people who don't know how to lockpick. Not trying to be argumentative, it's just so foreign to me that it's almost unbelievable.
If you don't live around blacks that just doesn't happen.