When home invasions make even our homes insecure, can we expect to be safe anywhere? How do you feel about the possibility, however slight, that we may not be safe?
Nothing is guaranteed in life. Unless you shut yourself off completely in a way that no one has any way of accessing you, life's a crap shoot. I can't, & won't, live my life being afraid of what may or may not happen. I will say though, that as I have gotten older and see stories about elderly people being targeted, I'm more aware of it than I used to be.
I used to leave the windows open at night during Summer when I had Hunter as he would have barked like crazy if anyone was around but I guess I can't do that now. But, I'm well armed and sleep very lightly and can protect myself quite well but it still doesn't mean something like that couldn't happen. No, we are never completely safe. We may think so but it's not true. If someone wants something of yours bad enough? They'll chance getting shot or their neck broke to get it. 99% of the time it's for drugs.
Complete safety is a target, like perfection, but likely also unattainable. For example: While you might feel secure in your bed, two steps from your gun rack, is someone stealing your identity on the internet? Will lightning hit your home and set it ablaze while you sleep? Might a stray bullet from a distant hunter or crime scene shootout penetrate your wall? A gas leak? A sinkhole? A crashing aircraft? It's enough to send an overthinker into paranoid paralysis. I think its well enough to consider one's relative safety in the moment and seek to maintain it.
Well were in good moral so between the wife and I - our good neighbors and our hounds we could stop an invading platoon of Russians and send them back to the Kremlin with their tails between their legs. Cheers!
No one is ever completely safe. Even if you remove humans from the equation weather, animals, insects are all possible threats. Not to mention my cooking.
Harry 