that my kids are way to good at getting into things they shouldn't,Your kids are too ill controlled to understand the words "do not touch?" You have three choices
- Move
- Hide in your house and hope that nothing happens
- get a firearm, learn how to use it, and keep it away from your kids.
Several decades ago, my great aunt and uncle (both since deceased) who were in their '70s at the time had a problem similar to yours - bums/squatters living nearby. Even back then the police would do nothing (which is all police ever do unless you fail to wear your seatbelt). The problem went away when one of the squatters came in their house an demanded money and got a 30-06 round in the chest instead. (It was my great aunt who shot him)
My kids are 8, 6 and four, and very well controlled. They are also as curious as cats. Could we safely have firearms in the house? Probably. It's a little late in the game for it now, anyway. What do you think the realtor was doing over here last night? With any luck at all, we'll be gone sooner than the time it would take for me to purchase a gun AND learn to use it. In the meantime, I am under a pretty effective house arrest, and it stinks. The damn squatter, who was never a legal tenant of the duplex next door, has
rights. The eviction order was issued last Tuesday; the court hearing isn't until the end of June, unless we can get someone friendly in the city attorney's office to move it up, which I'm working on.
Lansing is nothing but a smelly armpit.