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If he did....... it clearly wasn’t on, operating properly or monitored. Aside the alarm is no better that the bad guy waking you up vs the local siren of the alarm system if you have no means of self defense.

A defense in depth of physical security features such as quality door frames, burglar films on glass, good dead bolt locks etc should include but not be limited too the following......

Electronic sensors properly positioned to layer, protect each other and sequence in type of protection such as AIR, PIR, Infrasonic, IR trips, pressure pads, magnetic and contact types etc .

The ability to communicate with 911 should a line be cut with a fixed and portable cellular system on a UPS. Ones local alarm should be able to be sent to a monitoring agency with land line, cellular and the Internet.

Small barking pups, nervous sorts ...interacting with a plan that won’t cause false alarms of the electronics in place.

No one part of this “alarm” system is solid or undefeatable. All electronics can be bypassed or countered by a professional. The point is to layer a security system so each part protects the next, works in harmony with the other and have the ability to get medieval with the proper application of self defense to ...........stop the threat.

I know of no better tool to “stop the threat” for the common average home owner than a 12 gauge shotgun......

Just my opinion .......a review more than a Monday morning QB of the event. He may have had all of the above and luck was against them........doubtful. But possible.

Here in N.C., fire code specifies that power inside the house be switchable from the outside. This means that ANYBODY who can "touch" the outside of your house can shut off your commercial power. I boiled it all down one evening with the youngsters at the house and we decided that our standard plan of layered defense was -

1. Dogs! Inside AND out! Mostly outside, but one very keen, very nervous dog stays inside at night! Also, as you know, they are (all except for Blue) small nervous dogs!....three Rat Terriers, and one Jack Russell!

If ANYTHING is out of the ordinary they go crazy! In truth...the Jack Russell barks at everything. But if the other two outdoor Rats bark with him, then something is probably not right. If the Doberman sounds in the mix, it's almost a certainty....and if the indoor Rat chimes in, then something is DEFINITELY out of the ordinary.

2. Everybody who is able has a serviceable weapon....is VERY familiar with the weapon...PRACTICES with the weapon...keeps the weapon in the SAME place, in the same configuration. Weapons safety is paramount in stress situations and it's a big NO-NO to even chamber a round unless instructed to do so by me or Mamma, or -

A. Dwelling breech is iminent by unauthorized individuals.
B. Life or limb is in iminent danger.

Along with weapons safety goes a healthy knowlege of the law and how it applies to a given situation. I made them read the books we brought back from the CWP course we took and they are aware that in the state of N.C. it is legal to issue forth deadly force THROUGH the perimeter of a dwelling from the inside if you feel that your life is in danger, or the lives of those around you are in danger.

3. Everybody has a FRS/GMRS radio and NOBODY (including me!) is allowed out at night to investigate strange noises without taking some comm gear!

I just can't stress enough the impression left on me by serving on jury duty a couple of years ago. We tried a guy who was one of six who broke a door down of a dwelling and basically beat the crap out of the occupants...sodomized the man of the house with a pistol.

I came back from that and told Sweetie and the crew that there seemed to be a trend of badguys showing up in numbers. So as it stands now, we've got a pack of ankle biters OUTSIDE....one INSIDE....two people on one end of the house, one keeping close a Mossberg 835 12ga pump loaded with "whatever" he keeps in the thing...the other keeps a Yugo M59/66. On the other end of the house is mee and Sweetie. I've got the FAL and she's got an AR-15.

My goal is to simply make it TOO much trouble for somebody to want to come poking around uninvited. If too much trouble means rounds fired in self defense, then so be it. It's all up to them. :-)

Sheesh...I just did read the original article up at the top. People such as those who state that they'd rather remain unarmed are a cowardly bunch of boobs and deserve to be preyed upon by people who will do unspeakable acts to them and enjoy themselves while doing it.

As for kids and weapons....if adults gave kids some credit and weren't of such high opinions of themselves, they'd train the kids properly and never have a problem after that. The problem is that most adults simply won't do this. I hate to break this to the rest of the planet, but there's a REASON why kids were recruited as soldiers in African nations in recent hostilities. Kids are FAST, mentally and physically! Mine were all running the CQB range at the house by the time they were 10 and NOBODY could out run-n-gun them! They move fast, shoot fast, reload fast, and think fast! Yes it's true though, that untrained, they are a danger to themselves and potentially others around them. But this can be said of people in general, NOT just children!

What an aggravating article. The Charlotte Observer is known for its leftward leaning. I'll forward the URL to the kids at home. They'll laugh and hoot and hollar and make jokes about the Jehova's Witnesses that had a close call with them one day while me and Sweetie were out.

I'm not sure which is more offensive...a coward, or a predator. I think the coward is more offensive because nowadays, he is willing to vote to disarm me as well as him because of his irrational and unfounded fear.

As for stats and such...the last time I checked, police were statistically some of the most dangerous people on the planet with firearms. I can recall in the news where twice in the past six months there were deaths on SRTs where team members were fatally shot ("friendly" fire) during high stress entries!....and these are trained professionals?

The Charlotte Observer is not only F.U.D, but pure unmitigated bullshit as well....not worth wiping my backside with after a meal of good ole N.C. BBQ!

UP YOURS Charlotte Observer!

Molon Labe!