Altering your life for fear of something statistically insignificant is what I have a problem with.
Oh yeah, that is just soooo crazy. I'm glad I don't take the time to buckle seat belt. Having health insurance, to say nothing of paying for that life insurance, or malpractice insurance, is just stupid. Why alter my life by missing out on that money for statistically remote possibilities. When I do wood or metal work, I don't bother to put on safety glasses. I refuse to let some unlikely event dictate how I live my life.
Just a question do you carry a gun?
How statistically insignificant is it if you actually experienced it already? I don't live in a bad neighborhood (actually home burglars often operate in affluent ones) and had a two break ins. I'm pretty sure one was the neighbors drug addict kid, they were great people and good friends BTW (I'm intimately familiar with a similar case where the drug addict kid did a hot burglary of family friends, the friends stumbled across him and he murdered one of them, beat her to death with a bat actually). Between having an alarm and a safe it greatly mitigated losses.
Not everybody has kids running around to be concerned with. Some folks just can't see past their own noses.
And some folks seem to lack very, very basic reading comprehension. Or, perhaps, they are just so focused on taking a shot at someone they ignore what was actually written. You will note I specifically typed:
It may not apply to all of us[] . . .
I can see how you thought I was saying it was applicable to you and every other person and that I cannot see past my own nose. And of course you are making some big assumptions, as I never said whether I have kids or not.
Yes, a safe is a good idea but do you put every single thing you own in a safe? No. Do you put your kitchen knives in a safe?
Obviously not. This argument is of course a false dichotomy, the big fat phony either or. Because I don't lock up everything doesn't mean it is a better idea to not lock up anything. My safe isn't as secure as my safety deposit box, and I don't keep everything in one of those. I can tell you if I get a kitchen knife that is worth $10k+ I'll likely start. I can also tell you that in no home burglary I am familiar with did the thieves take the kitchen knives.
If you don't want to lock up your guns, that is your prerogative. However, what I take exception to is your suggestion that people that are concerned with burglary, or other forms of unauthorized access, and thus keep theirs in a safe are some how operating based on paranoia.
You run the risk of dying every time you get up in the morning and drive to work but you still go, correct?
Yeah (well actually, I don't have to go to work everyday, some folks cannot see past their own nose, but lest's say agruendo that I do), but I wear a seat belt, have a car with airbags all over it, try my best to drive prudently and defensively. I also carry insurance in case of a wreck or my untimely death. So in other words while I cannot eliminate all risk, I take the prudent steps to mitigate risk in ways that I can. Once again we see it is not really an either or. Furthermore, your analogy breaks down badly because the consequences of not working or alternately stated the utility of going to work. The harm of not going vastly outweighs the relative risk of death in traveling to work. The same cannot be said for leaving guns out and unsecured.
In sum, what you have failed to realize is that it is not a matter of paranoia, or letting others dictate one's life. Rather it is cold hard basic risk assessment.
