On most houses and businesses in Honduras (and other countries in Latin America), broken bottles are embedded in the tops of concrete walls, bars are over windows, and most doors (interior or exterior) can only be opened from the outside via key. For someone not from here, that can be intimidating, giving the impression that hostile people lurk around every corner.
They don’t.
Protecting one’s home in these places (where personal firearm ownership is rarer) simply looks different, and relies more on the very understandable dislike of “putting in more effort than it’s worth” than the threat of lethal force. To some, this looks like a prison. To me, it looks like I won’t need a gun.
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