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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a gun and practice using it. It’s your job to protect your family.[/quote]

[b]Right, so you can mow down your DH when he gets home early from a business trip.[/b]

Guns do way more harm in these types of situations that good.  There is very good hard data on that.  Home invasions, with intent to harm people, are INCREDIBLY rare.  Accidental firearm deaths are not nearly as rare.  Suicides too.[/quote]

:lol:  Bolded part above is my biggest fear honestly. My DH travels a lot, but even without the travel, one night I woke up to a strange noise in our basement. Being woken up, I didn’t realize where the noise is coming from, so I headed to kids’ bedrooms at first. I was completely unaware if my DH was in our bedroom, or in his home office on a different level of the house. The noise was so strange and it definitely sounded as if somebody broke in. I panicked, thinking I might have a small window of opportunity and was about to hit panic button on our home alarm system. If I had a gun and thought we were in imminent danger? I don’t know.

I changed my mind, set my phone on call for 911 and slowly started moving towards the basement. Once I saw all the lights on downstairs I realized it was probably my DH. It was heavily raining and our sump pump was malfunctioning.

While this whole story is silly, my fear was very real and million things went through my mind. Having a plan ahead of time is definitely a good idea.[/quote]

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