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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 732723, member: 13650&quot;]Good concealment and non-advertising to your friends, neighbors and maybe even most family members.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Your first line of defense is the potential robber(s), whoever they may be, not knowing about it.&nbsp; If you have a random robbery, it&#039;s likely they will take obvious things lying around like electronics, jewelry or whatever, that can easily be snatched, and ran with.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Next line of defense is concealment.&nbsp; If you own a safe, where do you put it?&nbsp;&nbsp; Is it sitting out in the open begging to be broken into?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or would people have any reason to suspect you owned one (or several) at all?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Next line of defense is finally, how good the safe is.&nbsp; Can it be picked up and carried away?&nbsp; Or is it too heavy or bolted down making it necessary to break into?&nbsp;&nbsp; Now it will take time and tools and &#039;most&#039; burglars don&#039;t like hanging around with the chance somebody could come home at any time.&nbsp; Even if they do penetrate the safe, they would probably have to make a pretty big hole to get much of the contents out which will be time consuming.&nbsp; &nbsp; For example, an album isn&#039;t going to fit through a 4&quot;x4&quot; hole.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If you&#039;re at home and somebody wants to rob you at gun point, I suggest you have guns you know how to use, stashed at varying locations.&nbsp; At least one somewhere on every level of your home.</p><p>&nbsp; This is not a bad idea regardless because you don&#039;t have time to call the cops and if you do, by the time they get there you could be robbed and shot anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s common sense.&nbsp;&nbsp; You&#039;re responsible for protecting YOU whether you&#039;ve got a single coin or valuable in the house or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The good thing is, at least you&#039;re looking to do something.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some people brag to their friends and family and show punk kids everything they&#039;ve got and then store everyting in a pretty wooden box hidden in the closet.&nbsp; &nbsp; Well, you know what?&nbsp; These are the ones likely to make the news.&nbsp;&nbsp; Doing something is certainly better than nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The other option is obviously a SDB which we&#039;ve hashed and re-hashed here a hundred times.&nbsp; &nbsp; They cost money and on rare occasions errors are made and the contents is confiscated by the state with no re-course.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many people use both safes and SDB&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Basically nothing is 100% fool proof but you can put the odds in your favor at least doing something.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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