To further clarify what was said before, I don't want to come across as someone who has a loaded gun in every room of the house for the sake of protection. I don't turn off all the lights at night with a DVD player in front of the window and wait for someone to try to get in for a bit of sadistic target practice either. I have two gun safes, accessible only by keypad entry or backup key. All the ammo is locked in a third safe via abbloy lock. One safe is located in each opposite area of the house so within a very short time I can have a loaded weapon in hand if I need it while taking precautions to keep my kids out of them when not needed. The whole argument of having guns to protect a home goes straight out the window if they are not secured properly. Last thing you need is for a child to shoot you or worst, themselves due to carelessness. The decision to have weapons in the home is a big responsibility and the appropriate actions need to be taken to ensure they do not fall into the wrong hands. Just as a story, I have a friend whose place was broken into while he was at the store. His girlfriend lay drunk on the bed after a party and the robber made away with all of his GUNS and nothing else. It’s a good thing that it was a robber and not a Rapist, but either way she could not defend herself. The robber got the guns and ammo which was in the closet and God only knows where they will turn up next. If secured properly then at least he wouldn’t have gotten them so easily. The next time they are used they may pointed at me while he tries to get into my home. One could argue either way of course, A while back I actually read of a case where someone took a young girl from her bedroom as her parents slept, unaware that anyone was in the house. In this case guns were of little use to anyone except the person committing the crime. In another case, a father was forced to watch at gunpoint as his Daughter was being assaulted by two armed men because he was not armed himself. Food for thought as always.