GO ARMED AND STAY ARMED!!! My glock and my shot gun with double O buck is right next to the bed. It is locked and loaded. My wife’s gun is no her night stand.
That might help against lone intruders or in small groups who still hope to see another day.
What happens when they arrive in willfully suicidal throngs with torches in hand and murder and destruction in eye and “Yes Master Satan” in soul?
Baltimore came close. But short of a divine miracle, a full military presence is going to be needed to thwart such throngs.