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This gets to the heart of the matter....
Why wouldn't you take your pistol with you to investigate every strange noise?
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We look at it differently. I would pose it as why would you go investigate a noise if you thought you needed your pistol to do it? I live in a somewhat rural area. I investigate noises fairly often. I don't consider or treat every noise as if it is a life-threatening event. If it strikes me as a life threatening event, I'm going to let it come to me, if I can't get rid of it otherwise, so as to minimize my potential loss.
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Obviously if you hear your back door being kicked off the hinges, or your kitchen window being smashed, or you hear someone trying to unlock your back door.....but how do you know that the odd "thump" isn't a criminal who just dropped something?
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I think we are trying to shift scenes here from "unknown noise outside of house" to "sounds like someone inside of house." If so, I would suggest there is a different set of dynamics that needs to be addressed.