For security, install some IP cameras and not wireless. We are installing the same doors with an outswing basically in swing takes up more inside space when open. If someone wants in, they'll break the glass. If we have a break in, it'll be on camera and if we are home, I've got several Glocks in the house. They won't be leaving the same wa they came in.

Where are you located? If in a wind zone like Fl, it needs to be swing out.

French doors are terrible for security protection. Even with an astragal, they are not much barrier.

Cameras---I use a trained guard dog---would be a good idea.

A couple of these, flush mounted in the floor:

https://www.keylessaccesslocks.com/security-door-controls-sdc-210hv-concealed-direct-throw-mortise-electric-bolt-lock-fail-secure.html?site=google_base&gclid=CjwKCAjwzYDMBRA1EiwAwCv6Jrfo39Eytc5h-_ZWZds_sPsFexCUMLbZ-pZLZj_x51JTjSh540XF9xoCYpcQAvD_BwE

Yeah.. one swift kick.

Safety? From what? Weather is one thing. Bandits are another. Nothing will defeat a determined bandit, but couple of good 45 cal ACP rounds will certainly change their day.

Mine swing out so they don't interfere with the curtains or get in the way. We have a security system and the doors are wired.

Like the pug idea! I have full-glass French doors to my yard, knowing doors made of glass are absolutely useless. Using guns to kill intruders seems extreme, so perhaps solid doors are better.

In the North, all our exterior doors must swing in due to snow. You could not get out after a blizzard if you tried to push you door open against the snow. Sometimes my family had to send someone out a 2nd floor window just to get out to dig us out!

BTW, French doors are horribly unsafe from intrusion. Get a BIG dog...

Gee, I never thought about using a panda. I heard they can be mean.

You can get harder-to-break security glass and also glass films that are harder to get through. In the end glass will be breakable, but security glass slows them way down. The essence of burglary is time--burglars want to be in and out in just a few minutes.

"...Using guns to kill intruders seems extreme, so perhaps solid doors are better..."

In Texas, no one goes uninvited into another person's house without consequences...

They should swing in with a floor bolt on the exterior jamb. You'll end up using just the one door most of the time.

As CP noted, IF you are in FL they must swing OUT to meet the building codes. As for intruders in homes, having retired from law enforcement here in FL, I can tell you that intruders don't break in to have tea and crumpets. They are in your home with ill intentions. The vast majority are jacked up on Methamphetamines, they could care less about you or your family . Having dealt with thugs for a very long time and based upon my experience with them, I've opted to ensure my home is well protected. I have absolutely no issues in taking care of my family. Back to the French doors!

If you are not in Florida, bolting the exterior door at the jamb and top is pretty much as safe as any window. If intruders are willing to break glass any window or slider won't be an obstacle. The most secure doors are single and have huge throws and are keyed on both sides of the dead bolt, even then you can kick them in if the frame isn't reinforced.

In Texas, no one goes uninvited into another person's house without consequences...

Last month, mrs. worthy visited Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. She was struck by how so many people seemed to be carrying sidearms like the Wild West.

Up here in Canuckistan, should you dare harm an intruder or car thief on your property you'll face charges.

Glass or not, steel-toed boots are the sophisticated burglar's favourite tool.

The doors are not the least secure part of any house. Any intruder who wants in, is gonna get in, if not through a door, then through a window...

When I was an assistant grocery store manager in Flushing, NYC, we came in one morning to empty shelves where the cancer sticks had been. To avoid our perimeter alarms, burglars had broken into the adjacent un-alarmed candy store and smashed their way through the foundation with sledge hammers. Where there's a will, there's a New Yawker.

If you're out in the sticks, anybody with a chain saw can cut their own door.

Trick is to have the burglars select someone else.

Thanks for everyone's input. We are in Texas where hurricanes and guns are common. Sounds like we can make decisions to help fight nature, burglars are a hopeless cause.

For security, install some IP cameras and not wireless.

Security systems let you know that your house has been broken into, but the police rarely respond quickly enough to actually catch the thieves (they typically are in-and-out faster than most of us would believe). If you have cameras, great. You'll have a picture of a guy wearing hat so his face is covered.

It makes more sense to spend that money on the better quality glass (triple panes are actually pretty tough to break), better locks, and stronger support around the doors and windows.

Most thieves aren't looking to get into YOUR house; they just want SOME house, so if yours is difficult to enter (no house is impossible to enter) they'll move on.

We utilize a pug security system. He works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Here he is working now:

We have the Beagle model. Slightly larger than your system and possessed of a bigger mouth ... but just as lazy. My husband feeds ours meat /provides pets and praise every time he barks at someone at the door (for example, the UPS man), so he goes crazy when anyone's around.

The doors are not the least secure part of any house. Any intruder who wants in, is gonna get in, if not through a door, then through a window...

Yeah, doors are the least secure part of a house. Windows are certainly breakable, but they still require that the thief scramble over the sill while contending with broken glass. Most thieves go through doors, and most thieves use the front door ... the second choice is the garage-to-kitchen door (which has the benefit of being hidden from view). Thieves usually don't go into the back yard, even though sliding doors and French doors tend to be on the back of the house.

Sure, if a thief has determined he wants to get into YOUR HOUSE, he's going to find a way -- door, window, whatever. But most thieves aren't targeting a specific house; they're just looking for the easiest choice.