You simply cannot do that if you're a celebrity or anyone of note who stands out. Even if you're just a minor character actor on a rarely-seen TV show, you have to understand there's at least a dozen screwballs in the nation who either want to rob you, make you their slave in a dungeon, insist that you marry them, or tie you and and peel off your skin with a vise-grips.
From what I recall they had a security system but his sister or his girlfriend’s sister or someone was coming and going and they disabled it.
Considering the location of the wound, the circumstances of the shot itself (surprised home invaders find large man with machete confronting them) and everything that led up to the attempted robbery, it is just a terrible thing to contemplate how many different ways Taylor would have LIVED and the relative few possibilities that would have led to his death.