Long winded here and perhaps slightly off topic

I had one invader while away; daughter (16 years old at the time) was sitting on the living room couch with a window behind her. Arm comes thru the window, daughter screams, invader keeps coming thru the window, daughter runs to the gun safe which is push button, pulls out a shotgun and runs back to meet the uninvited person and bellows out commands which in the end has him face down, palms up and head turned away from her. She then called the police, which in turn called me. What was funny was what the police officer told me. Kevin, Katrina scared the crap out of the man attempting to get into your place. He also said when they arrived she had the shotgun lying on the kitchen table with her hands lightly holding it (I taught her this, call it “politely greeting the police”) ready to use if he moved but moved back as they arrived.

Back in 2002, I just arrived home from New Hampshire, which was a 3.5-day drive across country to Oregon. Got home and jumped into bed without undressed and no sooner I hear strange sounds outside but decide to ignore them until something sounds terribly wrong. I go outside, shine my flashlight to where the noise is coming from, and find a gang of teenagers beating the daylights out of someone. I distinctly remember saying “What are you doing?” and one replies back with “None of your concern” which I replied back with “This is my neighborhood and you are not part of it so I have a right to ask”. No sooner then I shut my mouth they stop beating the teenager and head in my direction. I pop back into the open front door and pull out a BushMaster with attached flashlight. They see it and several back off while two others kept coming. Once they crossed the street and hit my front lawn, I noticed one had a rather large knife. My response was to yell out “STOP, STAY WERE YOU ARE” but they did not and I met the first one with the butt of my rifle in the upper chest area. One is down while the other said something in Spanish and took off. The teenager who was being attacked came over and thanked me for helping him. This entire time I later find out that several neighbors woke up and watched but did not call the police, which I had to do. Oh and the teenager being attacked was being attacked because he entered another gangs area so there were really no good guys between them.

Several months later (I did not know it at the time) one of the gang members was slicing up a woman (must had been a girlfriend or wife) while yet again neighbors stood by watching. I walk over, draw my 1911 and yell out for him to stop just as the police arrive. The responding officer is one of my students so he announces who he is as he walks up to the scene draws his taser and issues commands for the man to drop the knife.

So what does this all have to do with the best way to protect your home? There is a bit of humor here, each of the incidents above were from the same gang and they must have caught on that I was not one to mess with which I got from hearing a group of men saying “there goes Rambo” as I was walking down the street sometime after the above happened.

For those who are unaware that I teach civilians, law enforcement and military firearms, knife counter-knife, cane, baton and my specialty empty hand combatives. Even with these skills I know it is wise to have my house secure especially when away from home so I have setup a system which is only known to my wife and children.

My advice for the average person which rules out anything to do with firearms as not every place allows them i.e. New York City there is the Sullivan act or the Castle Doctrine to contend with is to do the following if you live in an area known for crime such as home invasions.

For the home reinforce the hinges and doorframes as standard ones will not last long from someone attempting to kick them in, especially back doors. Install good bolt style locks. Make one room a safe room, which has a door setup similar to what I just suggested. Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to head have a system in this room, which can turn on all major lights in the house. Put your house keys on a glow stick so when the police arrive you can break the stick; toss it to the responding officers so they can get past your reinforced door. Another tip is never open your door to a stranger. My wife will always turn on the front lights then look into a surveillance camera which allow her to navigate the camera 180 degrees. What you are looking for is someone hiding to the side of the door, get the picture. Always have a plan if someone breaks in to your home. Example, you hear a load sound and wake up, pull out your trusty shotgun and follow the sound. You get to your back patio door where there is a fat naked man pounding on the door saying let me in using some colorful words. You tell him you are calling the police which makes him madder and breaks the door down, heads at you and you pull the trigger killing him. The sad part is he was a neighbor (in today’s world many don’t know their neighbors), all houses are cookie cut and look the same. Many will say you have the right to shoot this man down but there are alternates to this which is why you need a plan, I have one for my family, do you?

Any ways I seem to either attract bad things or head first into them when there is no other choice and with that said have a good deal of experience dealing with the worst that humanity has to offer which is why I teach classes each week and never surprised at how many sheeple rather than wolves are out there thinking the police are there to save them. The police in short many times are there to clean up afterwards in regards to home invasions.


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