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Has Your Family Planned for a Home Invasion?
Ohioans For Concealed Carry ^ | 8/2/06 | Mike Kinsey

Posted on 08/03/2006 5:24:30 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim

Along with higher temperatures, summer also brings a higher number of home burglaries. Today, The Dayton Daily News reported that:

“More residential burglaries occur in July and August than at any other time of the year, according to the FBI.

That's why the New York City-based Insurance Information Institute suggests that everyone protect against "a physical or virtual break-in" during this crucial time…

The institute suggested the following tips to prevent residential burglaries:

• Keep exterior lights on at night and put indoor lights on a timer.

• Don't make it easy for crooks to break in. Slow down burglars with dead-bolted windows and doors. You could get a 2 to 5 percent discount on your home insurance policy by installing dead-bolts.

• Get a burglar alarm that will notify police and fire if your home is broken into.” But is that enough?

These are excellent suggestions that will certainly help to make your home more secure. However, even the strongest deadbolt or loudest alarm may not cause a determined or inebriated criminal to flee. In addition, an armed burglar can usually make his way up a staircase faster than police can respond to an alarm. It is for these reasons that some choose to strengthen their home defense plan by forming a strategy for protecting their family that includes a reliable firearm and the necessary training to legally and effectively use it. Minimally, this strategy should include gathering all occupants into a defendable area with a telephone, light source, and means of self defense.

Current Ohio law does not maintain a “duty to retreat” for defense against an attacker while inside one’s home. If passed, House Bill 541, known as “Stand Your Ground” legislation, will extend that notion of common sense to anywhere a citizen is legally allowed to be. Thus, parents would be capable of protecting their children from a violent attack whether they happened to be inside the home or not.

So... has your family planned for a home invasion?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: banglist; homeinvasion
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To: proxy_user

I know your doorman; he drives around in a Ferrari on his days off.


41 posted on 08/03/2006 6:28:19 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Slow down burglars with dead-bolted windows and doors.

Our house has so much glass, locking the doors is almost pointless.

42 posted on 08/03/2006 6:28:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Hunble
Back door Colt 1911

Front door .22 auto (browning)

Bedroom 38 special (Taurus)

Jeep 38 special (charter arms)

Wife's purse 380 (bersa)

Property patrolled by 92lb Brindle pit bull

I sleep well

43 posted on 08/03/2006 6:29:27 PM PDT by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)
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To: ShadowDancer

Maybe they could do a tent invasion.


44 posted on 08/03/2006 6:30:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Larry Lucido

This is what's wrong with your generation, you expect everything and don't want to have to work for it.


45 posted on 08/03/2006 6:33:37 PM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: IamConservative
"If you're here after dark."

"You'll still be here in the morning."

46 posted on 08/03/2006 6:33:44 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Its called my Benelli M3 super 90


47 posted on 08/03/2006 6:34:16 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: snowstorm12

The most vulnerable member of your front door is not the lock side where your keyed latch and deadbolt reside but the hinged jamb that is almost never reinforced; a drop bar like they used in the old west is still a grand idea especially if it is installed with long lag screws directly into a load bearing upright on both sides.

However, that window next to it is still only glass.


48 posted on 08/03/2006 6:34:18 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I could say something about that but, well, nevermind.


49 posted on 08/03/2006 6:34:28 PM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Has Your Family Planned for a Home Invasion?



My family is not the type to invade homes, but if we were, I'd prefer the play it by ear approach. Simply break down the door and run amok. Steal the fridge, the stove, and whatever paperclips they have lying about.


50 posted on 08/03/2006 6:35:13 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: gondramB
"Of course not - any action taken in response to a home invasion would only be a sponteous result of fear for the lives of the family."

LOL!
Perfect!

51 posted on 08/03/2006 6:35:14 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: TexasTransplant

My neighbor will let me borrow his backhoe anytime I need it.Our defence plan ensures that there will be some serious digging to be done when the smoke clears.


52 posted on 08/03/2006 6:35:20 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: proxy_user
Hmmmm.....there is nothing like living on a high floor in a Manhattan building.

Remind me to stop by for a visit next time I am there. :)

53 posted on 08/03/2006 6:35:20 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Knock knock" "who's there?" "Babs' uvula")
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To: kiriath_jearim

--> Looks over at the Marine 870....

yep good to go!


54 posted on 08/03/2006 6:35:36 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: chesty_puller

Until the dog gets really hungry.


55 posted on 08/03/2006 6:36:00 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: chesty_puller
I served in the Army for 10 years and never owned a gun. Other than an M16, I had never fired any other weapons.

Then I married a Registered Nurse.....

The rest is 20 years of hard learned actual experience on how to defend your home and survive.

56 posted on 08/03/2006 6:37:04 PM PDT by Hunble
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To: durasell

I suppose you'd use an engine block for a battering ram, right?


57 posted on 08/03/2006 6:37:21 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Kaylee Frye
Now I just need my concealed carry permit.

It's quite effective on your hip! I consider it fair warning, and so do VA and WV. I don't carry it in DC!

58 posted on 08/03/2006 6:43:12 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: Hunble
A 9mm Glock within 3 feet of my current location. Multiple weapons scattered around the house.

Similar setup in our house. A Sig 9mm, Sig .380, and two Ruger .357 Blackhawks. The scatter guns are only loaded on the trap range.

59 posted on 08/03/2006 6:43:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
The article DELIBERATELY omitted an important thing. Availing yourself of your right to self-protection and that of your family by means of deadly force: get a gun.

You have got to learn to read the whole article:

It is for these reasons that some choose to strengthen their home defense plan by forming a strategy for protecting their family that includes a reliable firearm and the necessary training to legally and effectively use it. Minimally, this strategy should include gathering all occupants into a defendable area with a telephone, light source, and means of self defense.

60 posted on 08/03/2006 6:46:35 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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