Clean your guns in the front yard and all you're doing is showing me what's available to steal when you leave home.

The "family farm" is located at the end of the road in a very rural county. The county is 82 square miles. The Sheriff's office has three deputies who do patrol, so only one is on duty at any time and the Sheriff tells residents to "take care of their own problems". So, whenever I am on the property, I am carrying; sometimes concealed, sometimes open. But that is one gun. And it is stored separately from my others which are never intentionally displayed in the open unless they are being used.

Lights, cameras, a dog or two are the first line of defense.

Deadly force or the threat of it is always a last resort.