Every chud in my life is obsessed with someone breaking into their house and the situation being resolved with the discharge of a firearm. And these are people living in low crime areas out in the suburbs, with no pedestrians. It's frustrating to talk with these people since their whole worldview is a racist panic over some imagined brown interloper invading their white fortresses.
One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening. Another has a CCTV system and an AR15 by his bed. I personally don't own a gun anymore because I don't trust myself with one, and chuds will ask me what I'll do if some mentally unwell person high on amphetamines decided to enter my apartment. I guess I'd leave or call an ambulance? It seems so unlikely of a scenario that even if I had a firearm I probably wouldn't use it right, or even register this person as a threat quickly enough to do a John Wick style takedown.
How many home invasions are actually stopped this way? Do chuds all think they're Robocop?
Cameras are such a weird phenomena.
Like great, you got blurry footage of someone walking back and forth. Now you can give your blurry footage to teh cops, who won't do anything with it bc they don't give a shit.
idk, home security is dumb. Get a reinforced kick-plate, put things you'd prefer not to be stolen out of sight, that's pretty much all you can do. All the rest of it is just hyping yourself up.
We have cameras to see if the mail has come yet, which of us moved the big broom, check in on things while we're out of town, etc. They can be useful even if you're not in a risky neighborhood.
ETA: We have no firearms, because we don't have any interest in maintaining the proficiency necessary to ensure that we don't accidentally kill each other. Even aside from that, we have no interest in hunting, and the likelihood that a gun would ever make a positive difference during some remotely-possible home invasion is basically unmeasurable.
Cameras for packages is a good and legit usage, i like that.
I've moved to a neighborhood with a lot of gawkers (including a local official) who would repeatedly drive by and slow down as they were out front. Even though I knew this wasn't the case, it still felt like my joint was being cased by a continuous stream of blue hairs and it was annoying as hell. I put up a cheap but visible camera, and lo-and-behold I could focus on work again without retirees in suburban tanks idling outside the window.
Maybe there is a small amount of validity to security theater, at least against those who buy into fear-mongering, lol