[RSBob]

Jeff, point well taken for those good people. From my house, My American utopia is less than a tenth of a mile from a trailer park teaming with meth heads, one of which slaughtered her entire family in Carnation a few years back. Our mail boxes and cars, including my wife’s have been broken into. Downtown is another trailer park, where one KC Sheriff SUV can be seen more often than not. America yes, but not utopia for all. That’s part of the reason I bought my Walther. The other is the beasties in the wild when I hike and bike the backcountry alone. Just today I got my Concealed Carry Permit.

As far as the best deterrent, statistics have shown that houses with one or more large dogs get broken into far less. Your neighbors, if they can afford one probably should get one, or just borrow Ed. I have a friend with motion detectors on the front and back of their house which triggers in their house a recording of a pissed off German Shepard. They only turn them on when they leave the house because they got tired of leaping out of their skins with false alarms.

You see my friend, I like to poke the bear too because it is so darned easy.