Ted, we are writing of two different cultures and you make your comments from your US perspective, whilst Lagopus makes his from our UK perspective. Nothing wrong with that. But I along with many folk here have learnt that our lives are worth more than a Rolex on our wrist, or the money in our wallets/pocketbooks, or indeed the family silver in our homes. They are all 'things' and, although many will have great sentimental value, they can on the whole be replaced.
I am a veteran infanteer and my inclination is not unnaturally to fight if I or my family are threatened, so it does go against the grain to have to be sensible!
Another way of looking at it is like this. If your house is on fire and you have only minutes to get out, what do you grab? For me it would be the totally irreplaceable family photograph albums and the separate hard drive on my computer! The rest would, I'm afraid, fry!
Tim
Tim,
You are talking of allowing the perp to have access to your firearms-where is the assurance that said perp won't use them to kill you, beat, rape, and kill your wife, and sell your child into the sex trade?
There is simply no way in hell that I would willingly go along with the notion of trusting a perp to do the right thing, while he is in the middle of doing the wrong thing. I would fight until my final breath to keep anyone from getting control of the situation in my home, period.
If my house is on fire, I would grab the wife, kid, and the dog, in that order. There is a cat, too, but she might be on her own, depending on how involved the fire was.
Everything else is replaceable. But I would no more leave the fate of my loved ones to a perp, then I would leave them to the flames.
Best,
Ted
