I’m sure the bad guy will shoot you if he sees you with a gun, but as I said, in the only one I’m familiar with, the guy said, “I have a gun and I’m going to shoot you.”
Well, I did say “probably”. In fact, I don’t have such a system.
We have plans for most things. For home invasion at night, it’s this (as we would quite likely hear someone trying to break in): wife jumps out of her side of bed, grabbing the cell phone as she goes, slams the bedroom door and plants herself on the floor in front of it. While she’s dialing 911, I’m retrieving my handgun from the closet. Then we wait for the cops to show up. Everything is insured, so I don’t give a shit what they steal. If he tries to come into the bedroom, he’s dead. Bedroom window, ditto. I used to have a shotgun, but I really don’t want to kill anybody. Maiming is so much more satisfying.
Good plan, but is it a solid or hollow core door?
I put a dead blot on the hollow core stairway door and planned to blow the guy who might be after us away with the shotgun.
I said “big dog” because I have dogs. I have guns, too, but two barking pit bulls are more likely to keep someone from breaking in in the first place. Unless, of course the intruders have the foresight to bring meaty bones with them.
I also picked only “big dog.”
Actually I have two big dogs: a Rottweiler and a black Lab. And, a small, very, very noisy dog when she thinks she has a reason to be: a Jack Russell terrier cross. I think it is entirely probable that any one of the three would happily welcome an unintended visitor right into the home…but as long as unintended visitors don’t know that I am OK with it.
Between the three of them, no home defense needed. Nobody would even bother trying! And I live in an insanely high-crime area.
“Foaming wasp spray” aka insect repellent would be another of my choices.
Nothing against firearms for home defense; I’ve just never felt I needed to go that route personally.
Why isn’t “hand grenades” an option? :mad:
Rough on the furniture.
All the doors in this house are solid, and actually the deadbolt idea is a good one; very similar to the safe room concept in embassy housing overseas.
Feeble excuse.
You obviously make more money than I.
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My father kept a shotgun in the bedroom closet. It was plugged for three rounds. For the first and last he used buckshot. The second round was a deer slug. He said if any of us couldn’t bring down an intruder with that combination, we deserved what would happen to us.
Me, I just have a big dog.
I went with the Martial Arts option. I have no weapons around the house, so that’s what I’d use.
I have no illusions that I’d win, but that’s what I’d use.
.44 is generally considered more powerful than .45. The latter may be able to carry more rounds, though.
A pistol with a sling.
Oye.
Big dogs, plural. One to make threat displays and the others to sneak up on the guy. So many of the choices make messes that you have to clean up, while the dogs will do most of the cleaning up, too. Zero effort–you don’t even need to get out of bed–and minimal evidence to get rid of, too, and you won’t even have to feed the dogs for a few days! You will have to keep a steady supply of fresh water for them, but you have to do that anyway.
Both of you have good points.
In a Matt Helm novel, a book not the silly movies, the dog takes out the bad guys, but dies.
This, too, is a Good Plan.
Pistol with a laser sight for manuverability and control. Frangible ammo to reduce consequences of missing.
SMG with laser to make sure I get their head