weelittledrummer, that's what your brain is for, finding the right defense when called upon. If I'm at my back door with an ice axe, chances are it isn't because a car is trying to break in. I also have dogs that I consider working dogs--they are here for my protection. I have a pit bull and a blue heeler/catahoula mix. More people may be afraid of the pit bull, but I'd put my money on the blue heeler as the dog to do damage to an intruder if I was being attacked.

There are many schools of thought in self-defense. Guns don't trump all of the others, they are a crutch in that they block self-defense intelligence and cause more problems than they solve. That's my point here.