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3. Unless you are a trained professional, don't grab a weapon. This includes firearms, baseball bats and pepper spray. They all sound like a good idea, but again, we don't know how the burglar will react to seeing an armed person. If they do have a weapon, they may be more likely to use it when they see you have one too. If you use pepper spray in an enclosed space, you and your family will also be affected by the pepper spray. If you use another weapon, such as a firearm and are not a trained professional, you run the risk of hurting yourself or a family member. And when a weapon is in your hand, you also run the risk of arriving police officers mistaking you for the intruder!
4. Escape is choice one. This is when you hark back to your emergency plan. Can you get out of the house from where you are without venturing from your locked room or into a place the burglar could potentially see you? Do it. Out a window, down a fire escape—all good choices. Just remember to alert the 911 operator of your position as you escape the house. Remember, police are on the way—they really do need to know if you, the homeowner, is climbing down a drain pipe. Remember to only escape if you can do so safely—hurting yourself in a panicked leap will put you in an extremely vulnerable position in these few moments before the police arrive. Make sure you have your cell phone and your car keys with you.
5. Hiding in a locked, safe place is choice two. If you can't get out (you're in that apartment we talked about earlier, facing the back of the building and on the sixth floor), gather your family and remain in a locked room or closet. If a lock is not possible, barricade the door as quietly as possible with heavy objects and furniture. Make sure to alert the 911 operator to your location and your actions. How many people are there in the room with you? Is there anyone else in another area of the house that they should be aware of? Make sure you have the cell phone and your car keys with you. Speaking of— - See more at: http://simplisafe.com/blog/what-to-do-if-youre-home-during-a-break-in?
Unless you are a trained professional, don't grab a weapon.
ReplyDeleteStupidity on stilts--you shouldn't defend your family and yourself unless someone pays you to use a weapon.
If you go read the comments to the article linked above they don't have many people that support the steps laid out.
ReplyDeleteI've been held up at gun point twice in my life (not at home but where I worked), and found that giving the guy the cash was the safe bet.
ReplyDeleteYes, the only thing to do.
DeleteIt's policy with most companies.
Only cowboys try anything else, and they are usually the first one shot.
It's a big gamble that one can outdraw a gun that is already pointing at you from a few feet away?
I've been held up at gun point twice in my life (not at home but where I worked), and found that giving the guy the cash was the safe bet.
DeleteLet me be sure I understand you here. Based on a sample size of a grand total of two events, you have "found" that abject, docile compliance to the subhumans' demands is "the safe bet." So . . . what other tactics have you tried (and apparently found wanting)? Self-defense with a firearm? Self-defense with a knife? Self-defense with your martial arts skills?
Oh--none of those? You mean meek compliance is the only "tactic" you've tried? What, then, is your basis of comparison for the determination of what is "the safe bet"?
Kurt, you love to prove how stupid you are, thanks.
DeleteWell, what's your personal experience, Kurt? I'll bet it's all in your head. And based on that, your imagination, you think you have all the answers.
DeleteWell, what's your personal experience, Kurt?
DeleteI don't claim any. Mr. Hall, though, cited his experience to bolster his authority on what he has "found" to be "the safe bet." I think that authority needs to be questioned.
. . . you think you have all the answers.
Mind-reading again, I see, Mikeb--and quite badly again, I see. I've never claimed to "have all the answers," and seriously doubt I ever will make such a ludicrous claim. Claims of knowledge of the unknowable are your department, not mine.
From my blog,
ReplyDeleteMr. Charles Hanna of West Dundee, wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune August 17, 2015:
It's 2 a.m. You and your family are asleep upstairs. You hear glass breaking and footsteps downstairs. You instruct your wife to dial 911. At the moment, you wouldn't want a gun near your bedside? (Statistically, it doesn't matter, right?)
Well, Statistically it does matter. Because guns in homes are far more often used to murder family members than kill Home Invaders.So, here's a retort Charles.
Your wife is on the phone with 911. The Police are minutes away. You've got seconds. You pull out your P229 Sig Sauer from the nightstand, press check to make sure there's one in the chamber, and head downstairs. You don't turn on the lights because that will alert the Home Invader. You still hear noise downstairs. You spy the figure of a silhouette in the kitchen. You take aim and pull the trigger. And murder your teenage daughter. Because she went out while you were sleeping and when she tried to sneak back in accidentally knocked over a glass vase.
And this isn't even a fictional account.
A funny article. Of course, all I need to do is check each room as I pass it to insure the kids are accounted for and station myself at my end of the hall. While escape would be a good thing, it isn't going to work well because kids don't wake up tactically. They make noise, say they don't want to, etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently of a mind to warn anyone who has entered illegally that I'm there and armed, and I'll do it while on the phone with 911. I'm really cool with them running away for the police to chase, the children safe, and me not having to get blood out of the carpeting.
My kids and I will stay in the house until after the police arrive and everyone can walk out calmly with empty hands so there are no accidents.
My town doesn't have 24 hour police coverage, so the nearest deputy is potentially thirty miles away.
That's why I call you the most reasonable gun nut I know.
DeleteHe's the most reasonable? Just proves what dangerous, dishonest, kill crazy gun loons are.
DeleteI'm sorry to see you get stuck with that label, Sarge. I used to be called that, so I know. Maybe talk more about how you don't think the law should allow you to be sent to prison for letting someone handle your gun, or how you don't think castle doctrine is a "licensed to murder". You know, "extremist" talk.
DeleteSo you are saying and defining SS that there are situations (areas) where guns would be more acceptable than other areas. If I live across the street from a police station, I don't need a gun. That sure flies in the face of gun loon theory.
DeleteNo Anon, everyone needs to make that decision for themselves and its not my place to fault their decision. If someone makes the decision to forgo armed protection, they are free to do so.
DeleteI actually live two blocks from city hall and the local PD. Though even before I would call 911, my responsibility is to ensure that I'm in a position to protect my children. Then the call is made.
Its just as acceptable to protect yourself across the street from the police department as it is 30 miles from it. Especially since the police aren't legally required to protect individuals.
"the police aren't legally required to protect individuals."
DeleteReally? Then why do they?
That's all you got? You are sad.
It is just the cold truth, there have been several court decisions regarding it.
DeleteIt's amazing your court interpretation doesn't seem to have affected their duties, to protect and serve. I wonder why the courts don't stop them from protecting the public, if that is not their job.
DeleteWell Anon, the court decision came as a result of a suit claiming failure to provide services to stop a violent crime. So not being found liable would certainly help remove and stress in getting in trouble for not protecting people.
DeleteHowever, as a result of the black lives matter riots and prosecutions, the police are starting to play it safer for them in urban areas due to being unsure of the support of the citizens and leadership.
This has resulted in a surge in violent crime that has been named the "Ferguson Effect" because its much safer to get there in time to collect evidence after the crime than to confront the criminal during the crime.
Right SS, the police have stopped all attempts to protect and serve the people. You really are a sick, lying, kill crazy gun loon.
DeleteAnon, you should stop taking things people say to unbelievable extremes. It doesn't further you goals.
DeleteAnd you should stop talking shit that does not exist. Why do gun loons have to lie?
DeleteHe hasn't lied anon. You, however, do continue with your lies and accusations. You look so ridiculous in your posts that I seriously doubt that you have any goals at all and the casual observers of this blogs are most likely laughing their asses off at your posts.
DeleteSS was being very generous with his comment to you about your "goals". Your only goal is an antagonist, and a very poor one at that. A real antagonist does back up their argument with real facts. That of which you have none. So instead you look like the three year old arguing with the adults in the room that constantly swats you away.
You are truly entertaining. Thanks for the laughs. It just adds that many more laughs to Mike B's jokes.
Any one who is more afraid that they will hurt themselves or a family member than of what the criminal will do to them (or their family) is welcome to make the choice to not defend themselves. Just don't try and impose your choice on others.
ReplyDeleteMost gun owners are extremely responsible citizens and take firearm ownership very seriously, spending a great deal of time at the range learning proper technique and improving their skills. Of course, escape is the best choice, but when your life or that of a loved one is on the line with only seconds to make a decision, I think I would take my chances with a firearm.
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