We have a few of those aluminum mini bats stashed around our home for any uninvited visitors. If anyone gets into our home they will be a celebrity home run king. No guns. I qualified as an expert with the 45, 9mil, and M16 while in the Navy. The wife also had to qualify for her Gov services, but with kids in our house we just never felt safe having a gun around. Honestly we just did not want to become one of those parents that ended up on the six oclock news because one of our kids got angry at us for punishing them and then shot us in our sleep. Kids can be so violent these days after playing murderous video games so much, and seeing things like Culumbine.
Just the other day our 14 year old posted a bunch of lies on facebook after I had to pin him to a wall to get his attention. After a bunch of our friends and family got online and saw what was posted we began receiving phone calls from around the world reporting to us what was posted. After receiving quite a few nasty comments from everyone he deleted the post, but kids tend to get so angry some times that they just can not control their temper. If we had a gun in the house I would easily believe that he would have tried to get his hands on it and shoot me. I have had friends growing up with guns at home. Two of then were shot by their own family members over a stupid arguement. One of them died. His wife got two years in a sanitarium claiming temorary insanity after shooting him 7 times with a 22 rifle. The kind you have to reload and cock the barrel for every shot. So no guns in our house.
Here is a bit of recent trivia information that pertains to the 9.0 quake of Japan.
According to NASA scientists the 9.0 Japanese quake in March 2011 shifted Japan 13 feet to the East (closer to the USA), and dropped or lowered Japan as much as two feet on the eastern shores of the island. This is why the tsunami waves were so devestating when they hit the eastern shores. The last four major quakes over the last few years have shortened the average day on Earth by approx one to two seconds, because each major quake shifts the Earth's axis and causes the Earth to spin faster. All of this was caused by the Pacific Oceans tectonic plate to move on top of the plate that supports Japans island forcing it downward. As this movement continues over the next centuries eventually Japan will be driven into the ocean killing anyone who lives there over that period of time. This is not a very good future for anyone living and building on the island of Japan.