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Being prepared is not paranoid. Neither is carrying a firearm for personal protection weird (anymore).
The potential for crime nowadays is omnipresent even though one is not personally confronted with it on a daily basis. But, just ask yourself - how many meth labs or gangs were in your area 20 years ago? Then read your local newspaper and check the daily crime report. Answers to those questions alone should inform the aware that our Andy Griffith Days are now past.
Actual crime is still seldom likely to happen to you or your loved ones. But if and when it does you don't want to say, "I wish I was prepared". That may be a statement you will regret for the rest of your days.
Bad things can happen to good people, and sometimes do. But bad things can be especially bad when they happen to good people who aren't prepared to deal with them who just assume they won't happen to them because they figure they are "good people".
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"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that . . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. . . ." Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Justice John Cartwright (June 5, 1824)
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