"tool" of choice for would-be theives

[race-rodz]

this comment here taken from a question about alarms got me thinkin....

Originally Posted by protour

Thats the problem with that theory though. What happens if my "tool" is a 50 cal hand gun, and buddies "tool" is a 9mm and he gets to the trigger faster.... Your hooped.

But in theory it would be freakin fun to walk up, beat the living crap out of him, and say he hit you first LOL.

-Matt

so my question is... what is everybodies favorite "tool"... these are absoulutly "what-if's"... and we dont really care about legality... because we all know we should just sit in our houses completly defencless and call 911 and wait for the POLICE to show up and deal with the bad guys