All three of my children know how to kill an intruder. A twelve year old with a weapon, and the brains to know how to use it, can easily defend him or herself against three or more intruders.
Even more, my kids were taught to be aware at all times upon entering and leaving their house.
When they were in grade school, I remember telling them that I would be hiding in the yard, and that if I could get within one or two feet of them without them being aware of me, before they reached the house, then so could a real bad person. Not only did we all have a lot of fun, they became trained for life. PS I paid them ten dollars if they could reach the front door. Both of my daughters have thanked me for this training.
Can you imagine if Emily was out in the Yard, occasionally with a compound bow, shooting a target. Do you think these savages would have tried to enter the house?
My deer target is in plain sight in my yard. Things like that send a potent message.
And... I do not at all blame the parents. Not at all.
I started them out on gun use and gun safety from before their first birthday.
They also had toy bows and later some effective bows.
I remember my oldest daughter’s first crossbow shot when she was twelve in the front yard. We have woods in front.
They also are familiar with other weapons.
One just graduated from college, and she had occasion to get three would be criminals running from her on a very dark night, in an isolated place.
Most people who scope out a place become aware of the dangers involved in a break-in, not always, but usually. These criminals usually avoid the dangerous homes. They do not like burglar alarm systems either.
My family’s ability to defend ourselves is what everyone should do.
I have taught safety and responsibility for the use of any weapon. Above all else, you do not want to have an accident.
We live in a screwed up world. In a lot of places, innocent people are denied the tools they use to defend themselves from evil. The scum have all the tools of murder they want. I wonder how well gun control would have worked in our frontier days or in the old west. Children were taught to shoot to defend themselves then. We need to be able to defend ourselves from evil now.