[/QUOTE]Protect your family, home and self from whom?

Criminals - Isn't that why we have police?

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Yep, that's right we do have police, but I see you live just outside or in the People's Republic of Seattle where you have an abundance of Law Enforcement where if someone breaks into your house at 2:00 AM you can call 911 and have an officer there 2 minutes.

Here in the some of the Rurual counties there is only one or two officers on duty after midnight and that deputy may be on another call on the other end of county and can't get to you for an hour, what do you do you tell whoever is breaking into your home, "Here take what you want, go ahead kill my me, my wife and my kids?''

I think not I know in my case there's an shotgun sitting there and if at all possible they're going to get their ass or some other part of their body full of Double OO Buckshot. Then that LEO can take his time getting here.

What's right for the Peoples Republic of Seattle is not necessarily right for the rest of the State.