News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (tinned food etc). Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by masonic on Monday November 14, 2016 @04:39AM (#12948625) 

  do you believe that using lethal force to protect property is ok?
When an armed party has broken into a home, knowing residents are present, only a fool would assume that only personal property is at risk. There's a fundamental difference in home invasion from, say, breaking into an unoccupied vehicle.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by ux-app on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:06AM (#12948698)
> only a fool would assume that only personal property is at risk

this is a classic example of emotion clouding better judgement. A more rational approach would be to look at the data:

- In 2010, there were an estimated 2,159,878 burglaries [1]

- In 2013 there were 94 murders associated with burglary

This is a 0.00435% chance that you will be killed in the course of a burglary. I'm sure this number will go down dramatically as long as you don't grab a gun ;)

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[ Parent | on HN ]