Reading This Post May Save Your Life (And Your Family)   Been
reading Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. Lots of good
stuff in there about the reality of violence and the best way to
handle violent situations. This advice about home invasions is
counter-intuitive:  Home invasions are crimes where a criminal
or criminals deliberately choose a house they know to be
occupied and enter in force to rob, rape, and/or murder. Home
invasion crimes have many of the elements of a secondary crime
scene. Your home is private and secure, exactly what a predatory
criminal may want. In addition, threats against family members
can be used as leverage to force cooperation with the predator.
This cooperation will not be to the victim’s benefit.  If
someone holds a gun to your child’s head and orders you to go to
the garage and get duct tape and a hammer, you have two choices.
(1) If you run from the garage and call the police from the
neighbor’s, the invader will have to choose whether to stay or
run. He may kill your chi