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

I have had many fantasies involving the use of a photo flash lamp and my Altoona Curve miniature souvenir baseball bat.

I don't have the flash lamp anymore, though, so that just leaves me with the bat.

61 posted on 08/03/2006 6:46:39 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Kaylee Frye
I keep my 45 under my pillow, loaded with hollow points.

Sounds uncomfortable.

What's to be your carry weapon?

62 posted on 08/03/2006 6:50:10 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: Kaylee Frye

Hope you don't sneeze in your sleep, or it could cause problems for your significant other...


63 posted on 08/03/2006 6:51:48 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: snowstorm12
He also had another device that you drill into the floor by your front door. It's a bar that prevents a criminal front kicking down your front door.

Well, he could just break a window.

Reminds me of a guy who parks his convertible on a city street with the doors locked. Zzzzzip goes the canvas.

64 posted on 08/03/2006 6:54:45 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

I never owned a handgun until I bought a farm. Here I am the police, and I take my job seriously.


65 posted on 08/03/2006 6:57:10 PM PDT by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)
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To: Cobra64
This baby:

Now I just have to come up with the money for it!

66 posted on 08/03/2006 7:01:30 PM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: Cobra64

Given my disorientation and sluggishness when I am rudely awakened, I prefer to load my Browning 12 ga. I believe that I can hit what I am generally aiming at at 3 AM
faced with a ne'er do well in the family room.

Also can anyone think of a more stress inducing sound than the cocking of a shotgun punctuated by
FREEZE Mo*&*( F(#&_^ ?


67 posted on 08/03/2006 7:02:40 PM PDT by slapshot (""USAF- when you absolutely, positively need it delivered on target, on time, right away)
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To: snowstorm12
"I was watching oprah one day...." Hmmm....

I'll bet the "expert" never mentioned buying and learning how to effectively use a short-barrelled 12 ga. or any other weapon for that matter. Just hiding and cowering until someone shows up with a gun is not the answer.

If they get through our barking and biting dogs they will have to penetrate our solid steel door. The next thing they will hear will be a loud noise followed by four more loud noises in rapid succession.

If that doesn't do the trick, then I'll invite them to stay for dinner. My wife's potato soup would surely finish them off (sorry, honey).

We don't call 911 out here in the sticks. Notifying the coroner's office would be the only call needed.
68 posted on 08/03/2006 7:05:02 PM PDT by panaxanax
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To: Mr Rogers
Hope you don't sneeze in your sleep, or it could cause problems for your significant other...

You know, I don't think he cares much from 6,500 miles away. :) He'll keep it under his side of the bed when he gets back, but for now I like it right between our pillows. :)

69 posted on 08/03/2006 7:14:47 PM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: Kaylee Frye
Very nice! Looks like an H&K. What caliber are you getting?

For about the same price, you could get one of these.


70 posted on 08/03/2006 7:23:19 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: Cobra64
It's an H&K P2000SK 9mm. I've had experience with H&K and really like them. I like the P2000SK because of it's small size and a lot of the features. Unfortunately, it's about $850, which is a hair much for me to just go spend.
71 posted on 08/03/2006 7:26:14 PM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: slapshot

Why a shotgun? Pretty cumbersome indoors.


72 posted on 08/03/2006 7:30:19 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: Alouette
A classic!

The claw hammer is the perfect touch.

I have a shillelagh . . . and a .45 ACP.

73 posted on 08/03/2006 7:32:58 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Kaylee Frye
Very good choice. The Germans build nice weapons.

They are pricey though. My wife likes the little brother of my Sig P226. Hers is a Sig P232:


74 posted on 08/03/2006 7:35:43 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: Kaylee Frye

>>I keep my 45 under my pillow, loaded with hollow points. I pity the fool. My first shot is almost always dead on. Now I just need my concealed carry permit.<<

I'm curious. My Grandmother told me that my Grandfather (Southern Baptist Preacher) slept with a pistol under his pillow. And I've never understood... She didn't think it was odd.

Wouldn't by the bed or at the head of the bed be just as good without all the risk? Don't you move around at night or fluff your pillow?


75 posted on 08/03/2006 7:42:18 PM PDT by gondramB (Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Anybody that comes into this house without my permission or a court order had better have the hole already dug.


76 posted on 08/03/2006 8:00:13 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Planting rose bushes around the windows is useful.


77 posted on 08/03/2006 8:11:04 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Kaylee Frye

OK, but I think I'll stay with a Marlin .44 Magnum rifle NEAR the bed...

I expect to be on the other side of the world next spring, and my wife can keep it on her side then.


78 posted on 08/03/2006 8:15:02 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: gondramB
Wouldn't by the bed or at the head of the bed be just as good without all the risk? Don't you move around at night or fluff your pillow?

Well, it's not literally under my pillow. I have a king sized bed and it sits in the middle between the pillows. The only other place I could put it within reach is on my nightstand, but I worry that somehow I'd grab it when I was looking for the phone. Since the only thing in the middle of my bed is the gun, I don't have to worry about that.

79 posted on 08/03/2006 8:31:24 PM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: Cobra64

Cool. I think I'll stick with the one I picked out. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get it!


80 posted on 08/03/2006 8:33:16 PM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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