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These comments amaze me. Partly because I find most of the "no" people are far more naive and have this sense of false security than the yes people. Why?

People dress up in uniform to gain access to houses all the time.
If they want to get in, a screen door or glass isn't going to stop them; it certainly won't stop a bullet. If someone wants to get in bad enough, they'll get in.

Granted, you can buy yourself or deter some people who won't want to bring attention, but given that all your neighbors are going to ignore that sound and your cries for help and call 911 instead while they feel safe and snug in their own homes watching out their windows, I doubt you'll buy yourself that much time.

*shrugs* So, unless my spidey senses are tingling, I open the door. I also do other "insane" things like walk bad neighborhoods at night alone (and yes, I'm a single woman, too), talk to strangers, etc. -- with awareness of my surrroundings and such, but still-- than live paranoid and ultimately ashamed that I couldn't spare a bit of humanity for my neighbors. And if that gets me raped, maimed, tortured, and/or dead, well then, so be it, I figure it's worth it not to let the fear and the fearmongers win.