[Texan5]

“get to a nice, bucolic rural area, and quickly.”

Only if you know how to use a firearm and own a few-if a bad guy does find their way out here to steal, you’d best be able to take care of yourself-in rural areas the distances are long so the sheriff deputy is at least 25-30 minutes away after your 911 call-he sill be grateful if he only has to pick up a thief’s body or arrest one that you are holding at gunpoint-frontier justice...

[familyop]

"Only if you know how to use a firearm and own a few-if a bad guy does find their way out here to steal, you’d best be able to take care of yourself-in rural areas the distances are long so the sheriff deputy is at least 25-30 minutes away after your 911 call-he sill be grateful if he only has to pick up a thief’s body or arrest one that you are holding at gunpoint-frontier justice..."

There's also the increasingly common practice of criminals working as gangs when invading rural homes. They tend to have cellphones and/or other equipment and plans to try to have the victims prosecuted, just in case their primary plans to rob/rape/murder/kidnap meet resistance. Some of them even feed dogs at the home well in advance. The food will have the scent of the invaders on it.