The Future of Home Security

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Do you really love your family and want to protect them?

Then, get rid of your guns.

Seriously,  they are more of a danger to your family.  But, that isn't what you want to hear, or what the people who control your thinking want you to hear.

After all, remember the study that caused your lot to want to stop all the gun violence research?

Arthur Kellerman and colleagues, “Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home”

And things haven't been going too well for the "gun in the home makes you safer" side as their studies are discredited while the peer researched studies pile up showing that you put your families at risk by bringing a gun into the home, as this article in Slate points out.

The overwhelming empirical evidence indicates that the presence of a gun makes children less safe; that programs such as Eddie Eagle are insufficient; and that measures the NRA and extreme gun advocates vehemently oppose, such as gun safes and smart guns, could dramatically reduce the death toll. Study after study unequivocally demonstrates that the prevalence of firearms directly increases the risk of youth homicide, suicide, and unintentional death. This effect is consistent across the United States and throughout the world. As a country, we should be judged by how well we protect our children. By any measure, we are failing horribly.

The United States accounts for nearly 75 percent of all children murdered in the developed world. Children between the ages of 5 and 14 in the United States are 17 times more likely to be murdered by firearms than children in other industrialized nations.

Children from states where firearms are prevalent suffer from significantly higher rates of homicide, even after accounting for poverty, education, and urbanization. A study focusing on youth in North Carolina found that most of these deaths were caused by legally purchased handguns. A recent meta-analysis revealed that easy access to firearms doubled the risk of homicide and tripled the risk for suicide among all household members. Family violence is also much more likely to be lethal in homes where a firearm is present, placing children especially in danger. Murder-suicides are another major risk to children and are most likely to be committed with a gun.

Crucially, these deaths are not offset by defensive gun use. As one study found, for every time a gun is used legally in self-defense at home, there are “four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.” A study of adolescents in California found that there were 13 times as many threatening as self-defensive uses of guns. Of the defensive encounters, many arose in confrontations that became hostile because of the presence of a firearm.

Hey, you can believe what you want since you lot tend to be "fact adverse".

But the even scarier thing is this:

As a report from the New York Times revealed, accidental killings are significantly underreported in the official data, often being classified as homicides or suicides rather than accidents. In several states there were twice as many accidental gun deaths than the official record indicated.

It seems that having a gun isn't going to make your home safer: in fact, you are making it more likely that there will be a serious or fatal injury.

It's your choice if you want to be ignorant, but I know you will choose ignorance everytime.

It's what your masters want you to do--and you mindlessly do or believe what your masters tell you to do.

And try to show me how smart you are by doing that.

You wonder WHY I don't listen to you?

Interesting product--unpaid product comment

Personally, I prefer a home security system to a gun for home protection. 

I have mentioned before that a good home security system can cost less than a gun in the long run.

ADT had an ad where they pointed out that a security system can call the cops if you aren't home.  I think they even had one that was even more "anti-gun" in that it wasn't likely to kill a family member or friend, which I am sure caused apoplexy for gun loons.

Anyway, this company came to my attention with this blurb:

SimpliSafe was designed by our founder, a Harvard Engineer, with this principle in mind: Being Safe Should Be Simple. So he designed a security system that is easy to self-install, easy to purchase direct from us online, and doesn’t require a contract or a telephone line.

I have installed and repaired security systems and this is one impressive little sucker.  In fact, I would consider it if I didn't already have a security system installed.  Hell, I am considering it, but it would require repainting my house (which was just repainted).


It would be nice if it had video capability, which my system has.  Don't get dumb ideas about harassing me since "big bruvver" is watching you.  CCTV has been used as evidence at least one high profile case in my area.

Also, I am a bit wary about the wireless and use of batteries, even if they are lithium.

Still, this system is so simple that the average gun loon could put it in without too much frustration.

That sure as hell beats having something which is more likely to kill a family member and might even be an attraction to criminals lying about the house.

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No, this home security system is better than a gun

A good security system protects your home when you aren't there. It will alert you if you are away. It can even send the video to a remote location.

Can a gun do that?

And better yet--how many people have been hurt or killed by a video camera?

The best part  is that you can buy this system for less than what a gun will cost.  And if you're able to set up a Stereo or other home entertainment system, you can set this up yourself!



Of course, there are a lot of other options which are much better than a gun for home security, but if you want the option of having a burglar make you a target--the choose the gun!

And hope like hell that it doesn't get used against you.

When the shit hits the fan isn't the best time to realise that you have been lied to by the "pro-gun" crowd.


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