At 3 o’clock in the morning, two bad guys broke into the home of a Conneticut family and killed everybody except the father, who was left suffering in the basement with his own injuries.

If you’re dumb enough to rely on simple locks and a fence around your yard to keep the bad guys from coming into your home and killing you and your family then you need a 21st century upgrade. It’s illegal to saw the end off a shotgun. But then again I doubt anyone reading this is considering bank robbery or assassination. If they are, they alraedy know how to make a shotgun more lethal than any other weapon you can imagine.

A sawed off shotgun is the perfect hme defense weapon. Half asleep homeowners awakened in the middle of the night by someone coming through a kicked-in front door, don’t even have to aim a sawed-off Browning Over and Under. Just point, click, and kill.

Kill is the operative word. Although spiritual masters disdain the act of killing living things, they fail to mention that killing is not the Karmic disaster it could be if you kill in self defense. If that were the case, millions of animals would be destined to life after miserable life without redemption.It’s silly to tuck a .38 under your pillow. Trying to hit the wall in a dark room in the middle of the night is tough enough much less the slender shadow of an intruder. It’s much easier to simply drop your arm down to the side of the bed you’re used to sleeping on and coming up with a loaded sawed off with twin barrels.Just don’t do what I almost did.

I lived in the country just outside

Minneapolis. Somehow, bats found their way into the house, and I usually got them out using a fishing net. One night I woke in the dark to a bat fluttering around my bed. Half asleep I reached for the shotgun. Then, fortunately, I
cleared my head and realized shooting at a bat in my bedroom with a shotgun was just a good excuse to redecorate the room, which I had no intention of doing. I struggled out of bed, half asleep and got the fishing net. Fifteen minutes later the bat flew away outside the back door.If a sawed off shotgun troubles you because it’s illegal, then I advise a .44, a.45, or a .50 caliber magnum, locked and loaded. If you have kids in the house, deal with it. Show them what can happen when bad guys come into your house in the middle of the night. And figure out a way to keep that gun nearby without your kids and their friends being able to get at it. Use your head. That’s what it’s there for. And don’t be afraid of blowing someone else’s skull into shrapnel. It could keep your kids alive and your wife or lover from rape. And that’s worth the time it takes to saw that barrel off and be prepared for the worst.

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