[Tom.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

You can leave your doors unlocked and your windows wide open, it's still a crime to trespass on someone else's property, and not having expensive security system doesnt mitigate that. Either you have the right to defend your property or you dont, you dont have less of a right to do so because you cant afford to make your house as secure as you might like

Its also illegal to shoot and kill someone. But that aside, defending your home doesn't have to be standing there with a shot gun, it can be as simple as locking your door. Having poor security is going to lead to burglaries, like it or not.

Originally Posted by Vicky.

And what if you cant afford to 'do something about it'? Not everyone can afford to go out and upgrade their whole house, especially after a burglary.

Surely locking your windows and doors should be enough security. And if it happens again and again, the police should have done something. As it happens, he got no help, so took his own security measures.

And I bet hes had no breakins since then. And other people were saved from having breakins because one of the hardcore burglars died. So it clearly worked.

Some house insurers help you with security measures after break ins, and obviously there are other means and ways of affording it. If you can't raise the funds in any way at all then you shouldn't be a home owner really.

What would you suggest the police do? There isn't much they can do.