WHY YOU SHOULD OWN A GUN: Shocking testimony reveals police inaction in Conn. horror home invasion. “Podunk local cops wasted more than half an hour assessing the Connecticut home invasion and setting up a vehicle perimeter — time the two attackers used to strangle the mother in her living room and set the fire that claimed the lives of the two girls upstairs, according to shocking testimony today.” Well, “Podunk local cops” is kind of unfair — plenty of local cops would have done better — but this is Columbine-level ineptitude. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away, but sometimes they may take half an hour to do anything once they show up.