I sent the following to a limited group of friends today.
I hate to put it quite this way, but people who may think that calling 911 will solve their problems if someone is trying to breech their car door, their back door, or the door from their garage to their living quarters are terribly naive. The call will take far too long even if you are not in St. Louis where you will likely be put on hold, and the response time will be far too long to protect you even in the best-policed communities.
You are on your own.
Haven't put much thought into it? Get out a stop watch and do the math. Have some friends help in role-playing. If you do not conclude that in the event of a mugging, car-jacking, robbery, or a violent unlawful invasion of your domicile you are on your own, keep working on it.
Attorney Colion Noir (Collins Iyare Idehen Jr) explains if all extremely well in the attached video. Take the time to watch it. Reflect on it. Then do your own risk analysis, realizing that even if you think the odds that you will need to protect yourself are very remote, the severity of the potential consequences is extremely high.
And read and heed this: the presence of a weapon cannot stop incoming fire; using deadly force to protect property is unlawful everywhere in this country except in Texas; if the threat is over, so is your justification to use force; your objective is to protect self and family, not to kill, though the attacker may perish in or after the event; yours is not to punish, but to protect; you have no business trying to detain anyone; your gun will not protect you unless you can access it immediately.
BTW, robbery is not theft; it is a crime against persons.
I have two rules: (1) I will do everything I can to avoid having to shoot at anyone; and (2) if there is some place where I would not feel safe without a gun, I will not go there. There are such places. But my end-game objective is always to avoid serious injury or death.
Let's be careful out there!
Watch the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHTrG3EYhM