[jfruser]

Why a home defense shotgun?

1. I cannot afford a bodyguard for my family and must deal with security threats my own self.
2. Gov't does not issue a policeman to personally guard my home.
3. Shotgun, properly loaded, is one of the best fight-stoppers that can be wielded by your average person.
4. The same reason I wear a seat belt in an auto, own a fire extinuisher, and pay for life/home/auto insurance.

Keeping it out of the hands of children has been solved by means of an electronic keypad lock on a closet door and ongoing firearms safety instruction. Quick access electronic keypad mini-safes do the same for loaded handguns.

Crime in the USA is mostly localized to high-poverty, high-minority urban areas. The problem is, even the poor in the USA can afford an auto to increase the range of their depredation. Better to be prepared and not need t than need it and not have access to it.