We just started to watch an interesting show on Spike TV online; Surviving Disaster Season 1. This first episode is 42 minutes long and is on home invasions, where they simulate 2 home invasions and how you can help defend yourself.
One is about a home robbery, the other a well planned kidnapping. They start with the home invasion robbery. They say there are 8,000 home invasions every day in North America, 8,000 freaking thousand home invasions on this continent.
Oh, I think we forgot to mention we were wrong on the 1,000,000 violent crimes every year, we apologize, there are 4,000,000 violent crimes in the USA each year.
So watch the video and pick up some tips. We will give you a few good tips here to prevent or slow down a home invasion robbery:
1. Your first line of defense will be to set up a perimeter motion activated alarm system. Something as inexpensive as the Voice Alert Driveway And Home Alarm System can be set up with extra sensors to blanket your property with an invisible beam that will alert you when it’s been broken by an intruder. That’s when you grab your guns, or non-lethal self defense products.
2. Your 2nd line of defense is to keep your windows and doors locked, even when you are inside. Many home invaders come in the front or back door. Pick up a few inexpensive window alarms like the Glass Guard Window Alarm, and a couple door alarms that will sound off when opened, like the Entry Alarm with RF Remote Control. Now they are at the gates, trying to break into your castle; get ready for them to come blasting in.
3. Now you need weapons, lethal work the best, though non-lethal will stop invaders just as well. HOWEVER, you have to be trained so they are not used against you. Training is the key to having the confidence to use any lethal or non-lethal self defense product.
We like the shotgun for its devastating firepower and ability to get the job done. Also large caliber revolvers pack man stopping force, and they won’t jam at the wrong time. 357 Magnum is a great choice.
For non-lethal, you have a few options. A large pepper spray of 1lb in a fogger will allow you to back-peddle to a safe room, filling the attackers with a cloud of pepper fog that will choke them and slam shut their eyes and throat so just breathing will be difficult. We like the Wildfire 18 Percent Pepper Spray One Pound Pistol Grip to quickly fill a room with some really hot pepper spray.
Another choice is the Mace Pepper Gun, which shoots the potent Mace 10% formula up to 25 feet, giving you plenty of room between you and the attacker. About the size of a flare gun, it uses these cartridges that really pressurize the spray to launch it that far.
And finally, the TASER M18L, which is a glorified stun gun that can electrify a punk from up to 15 feet away with the patented TASER® fluctuating delivery system. We just wrote an article called Is The TASER C2 The Worlds Wimpiest Stun Gun? and it was posted it over at Agoravox. They allow you to listen to it as an MP3, with a computer reading it. Pretty cool! We will post all of our articles there so we can get a MP3 copy.
Anyway, you get the picture; start by protecting the perimeter of your property first, then the ability for invaders to get in the house, then what to do when they get inside.
More to come…
Remember, pepper spray first & ask questions later…
Sparky the Stun Gun
Self Defense Products Expert
DefendThyself.com/VoiceAlertDrivewayAlarm
Date: September 23rd, 2009
Category: Door Alarm, Home Alarm System, Home Invasion Robbery, Home Protection, Motion Activated Alarm, Pepper Spray, Personal Protection, Property Protection, Self Defense, TASER M18L, Window Alarm
