[Marcella]

FBI statistics say most entries into a house are done by kicking in the front door. I have a heavy duty BuddyBar under my front door knob to reinforce the door so it can't be kicked open. It would take a lot of kicking to defeat that bar. Have an alarm door stop under the door so it screams if the door moves even a bit.

Hard to believe that DA didn't have a reinforced front door. A BuddyBar could have saved their lives.

How is your front door? Can it easily be kicked in? Yes, this is serious, no one is safe in that county until these bad guys are caught.

[Windflier]

How is your front door? Can it easily be kicked in?

I think an intruder is more likely to break their foot trying to kick my door in than anything, but I keep Messrs Smith & Wesson right beside me after dark for such unannounced visits, just in case.

I was impressed by your earlier posts about your home defense set-up. You're just all sorts of bad news for an intruder :-)

[sergeantdave]

“I have a heavy duty BuddyBar under my front door knob to reinforce the door so it can’t be kicked open. It would take a lot of kicking to defeat that bar.”

Angle iron bolted into the door frame also works. Drop in a two by four and you’re protected from the barbarians. Statistics say that if a bad guy can’t get thru a door in less than a minute, he leaves. And no, I don’t know where that statistic came from.