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Home invasion: some useless advice
Here is advice from Simplisafe Security Sellers. Put a deadbolt lock on a closet and retreat there, then use your cellphone to call for help. I guess it never occurred to them that a modern closet door (and for that matter, most interior doors) are nothing but two very thin sheets of plywood that would be easily broken by a kick.
But don't grab a weapon, not even 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." No, but we can probably predict how he will react to the impact of 1.25 ounces of 00 buck.
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It's easy to arm chair quarter back how it will go down, but no doubt the situation is dynamic. I hope i never have to truly find out.
In my minds eye it would go something like this.
"Leave my house immediately." As i am calling 911.
"I am armed and i will shoot. Hello police there is an intruder in my house."
Place the phone down and continue to give orders hoping the intruder leaves and if necessary shoot to stop the threat. My goal is not to kill but death is likely to be a side effect of severl 115 grain bullets inserted into an attackers chest cavity at 1,200 foot per seco d.
"Hello police please send an ambulance there has been a shooting."
Time to call you lawyer and hope your self defense insurance bill has been paid.
In reality my house is very small and barking commands and calling the police is likely to be a luxury i will not have. It likely would move so fast it would be more like "get out get out. Bang bang.
Again i hope i never find out, and forgive my typos, sent from my cell phone.
Aim the street howitzer at the bastard's chest and neck!
Interior doors are not plywood, normally. There is a very light wood perimeter frame, with fibreboard as the surface. Alternatively, it could be molded glueboard for those fancy surface types.
They typically have strips of cardboard glued edge-on between the two surfaces to give the door some rigidity. Punching a fibreboard door will leave a large hole through both sides.
These doors are merely for privacy and a bit of noise (and pet) control.
A Safe Room is not a bad idea, if it can be worked into your defensive plan. An ideal location would be an upstairs bedroom with a solid core door and reinforced jamb. That's where you keep your land line phone, your cell phone, and your shotgun. A closet is too small, and just puts you in a killing cabinet.
If you are able to consolidate your family to the safe room, you are in a solid defensive position. While shoot-house clearing drills may be fun, rat hunting for real is dangerous and has some legal peril. Romantic as taking out the bad guys s, your job is to protect your family and to be able to continue to support them.
If, after announcing that the police are on the way, and that you are armed, the perp breaks into the bedroom, shoot straight, because the perp really needs killing. There is unlikely to be a jury in the world that will convict you.
I know exactly how an armed intruder in my home will react.
He will die. Despite my best efforts to save him after I shoot his worthless criminal ass.
It will be a damned shame, really. It will turn out that the intruder was no doubt not a gang member, had a loving, cohesive family, was about to graduate from community college and simply broke into my home (past a fence, and several dogs, through locked doors and windows) to borrow a cup of sugar.
Yeah, sucks to be him.