07-25-2020, 07:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2020, 04:17 PM by heavyhorse.)
We call them "Ankle biters". Boots are a good defense.
You don't have to build a fortress (fortresses can be breached anyway). Unless you've somehow made a personal enemy who wants to hurt you specifically, most criminals are Stupid (stupid enough to lose body parts stealing copper from an electrical substation, and do it again a couple of weeks later) and LAZY. It's too much work to actually work; they mostly just want their next high or another bottle. Don't look like "low hanging fruit", Anything you do to make it more risky or difficult at your place than the next place down the road will send them packing. Locked gates and outbuildings. Barking dogs. Security company signs. Passive IR sensor lights, even crappy ones that turn on randomly from birds or wind. Empty dog houses if you don't want a dog.
Guns are a much-sought-after target for theft. Lots of cars are broken into to steal guns, even police cars. I personally wouldn't announce mine with a sticker. No need to actually, in the U.S. these days it's pretty much understood that anyone, anywhere, may be armed; the response to a barking dog may be gunfire. Light turns on, gunfire. Even wearing or not wearing a mask......