Originally Posted by Collects

How does the psycho/pervert enter homes without waking up the occupants? One would think that breaking glass and/or breaking wood noises would awaken the homeowners. If not, certainly an alarm system is in order. It is scary to think of waking up with a psycho peering down at you, and perhaps holding your gun from your nightstand. He cannot hold your gun if you have notice of his entry into your home by an alarm, or by the noise of breaking into the home, or by the sound of your dog barking, if you get to the gun first.

If this guy is not harming the residents of the homes he breaks into, perhaps you should use a Taser, stun gun, pepper spray or baseball bat for defense, and not the more lethal option of a firearm. You can have your less-than-lethal defense product on the nightstand, and your handgun concealed nearby, not out in the open for the unwanted visitor to arm himself with.

OTOH, as has been pointed out, there are likely hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people in the USA who go to sleep every night with a loaded handgun in or on their night stand.