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I'm not sure thieves would specifically target a home where the owner is clearly known to be able to defend such a theft with swift, lethal force.

chiph 10y ago
They just wait until you leave for work, or are asleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNmj2gSq6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNmj2gSq6A Response time for the police is usually on the order of tens of minutes. A friend lives in the country and called about a suspicious person and had a deputy show up 3.5 hours later. Thieves know this and will be in and out pretty quickly. They know where to look - under the mattress. In the refrigerator/freezer. In the nightstand. On the top shelf of the closet.
- spdustin 10y ago
  Ah, an obvious factor that I failed to consider (homeowner being absent), thanks. Is this different from a thief "casing" your house to determine if you've purchased big ticket items? If their access to the information is logged (which I know isn't always going to be valid) and you're notified that a civilian accessed your gun inventory record, is that more or less problematic than someone who just watches your house every weekend for a few weeks after, say, Christmas, to see what large packaging you throw out without breaking down? I'm reconsidering my opinion on public access, for certain, and I'm sincerely trying to be as informed on the caveats as best I can.
  - i_are_smart 10y ago
    A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of just on the curb, so the fact that I got, say, a large tv is hidden. This sort of database would not be opt-out.
    - brewdad 10y ago
      Security by obscurity is not security at all.
  - chiph 10y ago
    There's currently a problem with "package bandits" that cruise neighborhoods after the UPS and FedEx trucks have been through. They'll hop out of their car and grab your delivery off the front porch. So they don't even have to break-in to steal from you. :(

chiph 10y ago

They just wait until you leave for work, or are asleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNmj2gSq6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNmj2gSq6A Response time for the police is usually on the order of tens of minutes. A friend lives in the country and called about a suspicious person and had a deputy show up 3.5 hours later. Thieves know this and will be in and out pretty quickly. They know where to look - under the mattress. In the refrigerator/freezer. In the nightstand. On the top shelf of the closet.

spdustin 10y ago
Ah, an obvious factor that I failed to consider (homeowner being absent), thanks. Is this different from a thief "casing" your house to determine if you've purchased big ticket items? If their access to the information is logged (which I know isn't always going to be valid) and you're notified that a civilian accessed your gun inventory record, is that more or less problematic than someone who just watches your house every weekend for a few weeks after, say, Christmas, to see what large packaging you throw out without breaking down? I'm reconsidering my opinion on public access, for certain, and I'm sincerely trying to be as informed on the caveats as best I can.
- i_are_smart 10y ago
  A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of just on the curb, so the fact that I got, say, a large tv is hidden. This sort of database would not be opt-out.
  - brewdad 10y ago
    Security by obscurity is not security at all.
- chiph 10y ago
  There's currently a problem with "package bandits" that cruise neighborhoods after the UPS and FedEx trucks have been through. They'll hop out of their car and grab your delivery off the front porch. So they don't even have to break-in to steal from you. :(