Has Your Family Planned for a Home Invasion?

Ohioans For Concealed Carry ^ | 8/2/06 | Mike Kinsey

[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?

[Boiling point]

LOL, I have my own back hoe, just remember to bury'em about 14 feet deep, then hide the back hoe at a friends house. The never look that deep especially if there is a new patio poured over it!

[gondramB]

>>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.<<

Thanks, I was just curious.

[absalom01]

buy pepper spray put a canaster in all your drawers

That sounds kinda uncomfortable.

[Rocky Mountain High]

Check the good gun stores in your area for a used one. You might be able to find one that's almost brand-new for $200 less.

[Rocky Mountain High]

9mm?

[4yearlurker]

How about a 12 gage pump,5 boxes of shells and 3 throwing hawks.

[sweetiepiezer]

Read an email the other day to put your car keys on nightstand near bed and if you hear anything, set off car alarm. Could deter them.

[Just another Joe]

Has Your Family Planned for a Home Invasion?

Yes, my wife, daughter, and myself know the routes out of the house, where the different types of weapons are, the approximate time it takes to get either to the weapons or out of the house from different places in the house, and the gather points outside the house to allow us to know that everyone made it out if that's the decision.

Is that enough or should I be doing more?

[Sax]

Me too. I've got pistols and rifles, but the one I have set up for use in a hot second is the good ole scattergun.

I'm a good shot, at the range or in the field, but if you are awoken in the middle of the night, you might be disoriented, scared, and in the dark - the shotgun is a lot more forgiving with aim. And knowing that, you feel much more confident standing behind it, especially if you're up against more than one bad guy.

Plus, with a shotgun, you have the option of just racking it and putting a round in the floor - that racking sound and thunderous report will clear out most folks and is a decent option if you're not completely sure where the rest of your family may or may not be at that moment. Of course if you are certain of your perp and he's in the next room alone, you don't even have to expose yourself if you don't want to - just crane the barrel around the corner and it's good night gracie.

I use #4 shot - at close range it's just as devastating as buckshot since it's just as much lead and the pattern doesn't have the chance to spread out, but errant pellets won't over-penetrate drywall very well.

[TC Rider]

woohoo! Gun Porn!

The King Cobra .357 is in a lock box in the nightstand. The S&W 625 in .45 is in a lockbox on the main floor, the others are in the safe in the basement bunker.

All serve to get me closer to this, stashed in a central locaton...

I need a good snapshot of mine, the one pictured differs in that it lacks a light

[Smokin' Joe]

Like this? with the bat, of course. Interesting. I wonder if I can get one with a rail mount...(8^D)

If you're going to fight for your life, fight to win. Fair doesn't enter into it.

[opus86]

Nice. What sort of lock box do you use?

[TC Rider]

A forty cubic foot Liberty safe in the basement bunker.

Main floor - one of the boxes with 4 button on top laid out like your hand. (can't think of the brand)

Bedroom - box with 10 key pad on top. (can't think of the brand on this one either)

Both are sold in most gunshops, freepmail me and I'll try to remember to look for you. Both cost around $45 and are designed to keep out kids. Someone could steal the box and get access with a bit of work.

The safe isn't going anywhere.

[tcostell]

Wow...!

I wish I had good neighbors.

[tcostell]

When I lived in town I was on the 30th floor and left my balcony door open from June through September.



(the 30th floor is above insect level so even they didn't get in)

[opus86]

Thanks - I think I know the kind you're talking about.

[Kaylee Frye]

Thanks. I've looked around some. Most of the gun stores around here don't even carry one new!! That's partly because they are a new item and partly because I think they're meant for girls like me (9mm and all).

[Cobra64]

My wife's Sig P232 is .380

My Sig P226 is 9mm

Home/self defence loads are Speer Gold Dot or Remington Golden Saber.

[looscnnn]

Are you sure that they actually know that they have it and know how to turn it on?

[looscnnn]

WOuld give new meaning to Freeze!