I don't want any Zimmermans to come by and start shooting. It's only money. I think the gun enthusiasts got their jollies from the fact that Z was allowed to use his gun. He was defending the community from breaking in where people lost a few laptops and whatever junk that could be easily carried.
Let them! It's only junk. I had to supervise my parents junk many times. Once in Finland about 1975, where we had some household stuff and my old train sets and what not (some got stolen) were stored. My dad had a friend who had stored it free 10 years, and he had sold the property. I was the only one going to Finland so I had to go there and supervise what was to be kept in my aunt's shed at her cabin. I had no attachment to old junk, I kept a few school books of mine (Väisälän geometria and a botany book).
When my parents died I had to deal with their junk in Florida, not so much later, my mom had a little junk left. All that is left is photographs and slides.
I also had to haul my own junk around. Stacks of LPs went to record stores for pennies. No sweat. You can buy them on CD! I am not the keeper of band histories of local bands. Off go the tapes to the dumpster.
Want some junk disposed? Pay the plane ticket and I will come and dispose of it.
The rant started from my thoughts that stuff is never worth shooting someone for. Arson is different, as lives are at stake, but an empty house, even there it's still all junk. Insure it.
One of my old friends on the internet, lost him a few years back, was really interesting in his philosophy, similar to mine. He thinks he came to it as their house burned down when he was 10. No lives lost.
