| Reasonable said: The point is I don't expect a burgler to break into my house and I'm comfortable with a sensible level of police visibility and CCTV. I don't have a gun in my house and I don't need one. I'd prefer to live like that than feeling I do need a gun. |
Only problem is a pretty significant percentage of the US population does not live in cities, meaning they live in areas policed by a sheriff's office with limited personnel resources.
If you live in an area where your closest neighbor is over a mile away, about the only thing a CCTV camera would be good for is hitting an intruder over the head with it.
For those who live in the city, even though the odds of being mugged/robbed whatever are multiple times higher than anywhere else, the additional police on patrol relative to non-urban areas simply aren't enough to cover everything at all times otherwise urban crime would be non-existent. It clearly isn't.
And no, I'm not advocating mass paranoia or that anyone should live in fear over things they have little control over, but accept that even Extreme Police Visibility and all the CCTV cameras in the world aren't a magical security blanket from crime.
