Regarding the bike, get a pair of the biggest baddest locks you can. And lock up per Sheldon Brown's method. Take a look around and make sure your bike is harder to steal than it's comparables parked nearby.

Next, make your bike unattractive. Beaterize it. You'll know it's not a beater because you'll still ride it and feel it whip through corners. But a mofo in a pickup cruising by it looking for some candy to steal won't see it right away.

Paint it matte black, put stickers all over it, put reflective tape all over it (you should do this anyway), put fenders on it (it does rain in TN right?), put stickers all over your fenders, put a rack on it, etc...

Your bike should ride like the gem it is, but should look like a homeless guys transportation.
-----------------------------------------------------

Regarding your home: I watch "cops" when I'm bored, and there is often a trunk full of stollen guns taken from someones house (yes even in TN). It happens. Please put trigger locks on your weapons (to at least slow down the usefulness of them to a theif). The odds of a breakin while you are home are miniscule. If you have one of those NRA (deadly force used to protect this house) stickers on your front door all you are doing is putting up a big sign that says, "Loads of firearms stored here, wait until I leave and come on in and help yourself: everything must go!!"

I've owned dogs for 10 years now and I think a loud bark and a beware of dog sign are the best theft deterents money can buy. Why mess with a house with a dog, when the one next door has no dog.