>>88754634Security essentially has three layers:
1. Outer (perimeter outward)
2. Field (perimeter inward)
3. Inner/Sanctum (inside your home)
Outer security can be interpreted as anonymity all the way to a lock on your gate. Anything that keeps people from knowing where/who you are, keeps them disinterested/dissuaded. This is by far the most effective security for a vast majority of people in a vast majority of cases. Almost entirely non-violent, non-aggressive measures.
Field security could be guards, dogs, traps, pathing, cameras, alarms, etc. The threats are stepped up here as anyone that passes by your outer security should be treated as a potential threat. If you've ever been through a checkpoint at the airport, this is a type of field security to be let into the sanctum.
Inner security is pretty much entirely lethal. Inner security is at best a panic room but for a vast majority of people it's a gun. Someone gets past all your other layers of security and gets into your home, you shoot them. End of discussion. Dogs and guns are NOT the same.
The real issue is that people just "buy a gun" for "home security" and think castle law takes care of the rest. Fuck even people who actually train to use firearms are under some delusion that that's all they need to be truly secure. 90% of your security problems are solved by good outer security. 90% of the rest can be dealt with by good field security, albeit at a cost. You only need a gun for everything else.
You will absolutely want a gun in that 1% though or you're fucking raped and dead so there's that.
