-Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended.

-Four ruffians break into my house.
-"What the devil?" as I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle.
-Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot.
-Draw my pistol on the second man, misses him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbor's dog.
-I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot.
-"Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms.
-Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.
-Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up.

-Just as the founding fathers intended.