Posted: Oct 12, 2017 7:03 pm
That's no shit.
I wrangled with that problem myself, at length. Living somewhat rurally, I doubt the rozzers can respond in time to deal with any active assaults on my family. What I considered heavily was the trade-off between usability and inherent risk from owning the thing.
The gun I had in mind is a double barreled shotgun, of a style known as a coach shotgun. That's just a shortened shotgun, to allow for quick aiming. Smaller moment of inertia, you know.
But, to keep it so it's usable in most conceivable situations, it would need to be loaded and at hand. And, I would need to be in just the right place and time, as well as the rest of my family and pets being at their right places to be any use. I'd hope that the insensate invaders will be so kind as to limit their attacks to those times when I'm ready for them and no one except the invader is in the line of fire.
I had in mind a Stoeger coach shotgun, to be kept inside a safe mounted within my walls. The safe needs two separate locks, so no one person can open it. You never know when an individual person with access to that thing will go over the top and use it on either themselves or someone else, probably a family member. The only way to mitigate that is to introduce a two person concept. It would be very safe, and very secure.
It simply wouldn't be useful for defense. And, if it is of no use, why bother going through all that fucking trouble to have the thing?