As long as there is power, my small group of townhomes is behind a locked gate. Sure, someone could climb over the wall surrounding the place, but they won't be driving in and there are houses everywhere around that are easy pickings compared to this place.
I have security warnings that will alet me if someone has touched my window or door and the door can't be kicked open. Of course, I have fatal deterrents should my door be breached.
The thing is, in all my long life this has never happened and now we are rapidly collapsing economically and that sets up criminals to try to get what someone else has. I think we are past the time when it was coming as it is now here.
There is no guessing anymore as to when it would happen. Everyone should have a gun and know how to shoot it and stock water and food.
I met some young guys friday at a yard sale....they're in the Coast Guard, medical types of some kind. They are almost in a panic about their sudden realization about the threat and how unpreppared they are and that they should be prepping.
Initially they were trying to convince me (and my buddy) to do so also because there was a real threat. Finally, we revealed to them that we were preppers and set them right on a few things they were about to do wrong, etc.
One of the guys was going to contact me on FR but I don't expect to hear from him.
I'm encouraged though to see clean-cut, smart, young guys like them 'coming around.'