“2 am and you hear noise in your own house. Take a gun.” No guarantee a gun will work for you. You go into the garage with a gun, the other person may shoot you before you can shoot them. Next time stay in your room or lock yourself in a bathroom or leave the house by another route and call the police. Why try to be a “hero” or “manly” and get killed? Bryan:  Also, I think 26 people that liked what you said just don’t know the best way of “staying alive.”  As I say all the time on Comments:  Stupid is as stupid does.