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I feel that for home use, a shotgun is hard to beat, though some will disagree, and it is admittedly damn near impossible to dial a phone and hold a gun on a bad guy at the same time... as to where to put it, assuming you have no kids as an issue, then beside the bed is ideal but make sure to have a light near it to I.D. a target- as to the rest of the house, myself I sell swords and knives for a living, so there are a plethora of swords on the walls, and my house is not that large and all one level, so I tend to think I have a good to excellent chance of fighting my way to a firearm if someone kicks my door in (happened less that a block away, they were trying to rob the crack house and got a middle aged nurse instead) you might go that route, with a few bladed or blunt instruments tucked away here and there throughout the house.....
As to the why carry and where V.S. paranoia, I do part time security consulting, as well as having grown up around law enforcement, and having a cop for a business partner, so I tend to be a bit wary - simply because I have seen how bad things can suddenly, and without warning, or real cause on your part, go... and while its unlikely that it will happen to me, I am always aware that it could, and have seen too many good people hurt or killed because they believed that either A- it would not happen to them
or B- that the person who killed, raped, or maimed them would not go that THAT far, was not THAT serious, etc.... also, having a child changes a lot, as unlkie in the movies, they are not magically immune to violence, nor can a 2 year old expect to be able to run away from any fucking thing... thus as a parent, whatever it is that goes horribly wrong, I have to get in front of .......and having seen the results of violence, I want to have more than my bare hands.....
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