We, I especially do not like owning a gun, but after you read my story you will know why we (DH) now has a 9mm and a permit to carry etc. One night several years ago around midnight, Dh was asleep, I heard a noise outside our bedrm. I went into the bathroom, potty rm. and heard voices and strange noises right outside the window, I alerted DH and he peeked out our bedrm. window and saw 4 guys in hoodies, he said call 911, I picked up the phone and it was dead! so I grabbed our cell a flip phone which I knew made a melodious sound when turned on, so I took it to the other side of the house and into a walk-in closet and made the call, she said, no police are in your area but we will get one there as soon as possible, stay on the phone, the perps came around the house after cutting all lines that they could, to our side door/laundry room, our security system was set but at that door, they would need to cut a screen, which they did and break the glass and when that door is opened then the alarm would go off. It took cops 14 mins. to get here, they had just cut the screen, the cop came silently no lights etc. but the perps saw him and ran, we had so many police cars here and the canine unit till 3AM they tried a police dog, but he did not get the scent, then a bloodhound which got the scent, and they tracked the guys, but along the way they dropped all their weapons a 357 Magnum hunting knives and more. All we had at the time was a kitchen knife, the cops told us we were very lucky, 2 of these punks were wanted in 3 other states on capital crimes which is murder/rape. So now our security system has been beefed up to the max. it is wireless so no wire cutting will effect it and we have 8 sec. camera's around our home, plus motion activated lights and as discussed a gun, with the clip in, safety on, but never fired, hope it never needs to be! DH was in the army so knows how to use it. The cops said we may have been killed, no doubt! And so this is why we own a gun, that night was so much more traumatic then the Cat 4/5 hurricane we spent 2 hrs. in a walk-in closet waiting out. And this happened in an upscale suburban neighborhood, not in a low income, or city area, so you never know.