# Castle theory of guns and protection **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 4, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-theory-of-guns-and-protection/484368 "2009-02-04T03:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 248
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-theory-of-guns-and-protection/484368/248 "2009-02-08T14:43:02Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > So this better security did not make burglary more difficult. You quit because you had a crisis of conscious. It wasn’t a crisis of conscience that stopped him - it was because he tried to rob another criminal that was bigger than him. > [@Ok, if I shouldn't \_shoot\_ the intruder, then...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-if-i-shouldnt-_shoot_-the-intruder-then/482060/270): > > I stopped burgling houses six years later, not because I was afraid of getting caught by the police, but because I burgled a ‘gangster’s’ house by mistake, and was made to realise the error of my ways, in that you never knew who’s house you were robbing if you were an opportunist thief. (If anyone wants to make that Pit thread, I think that would be a better place to discuss Ivan’s deficiencies) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-theory-of-guns-and-protection/484368)._