“What are you prepared to do!?!â€

[TheFederalistWeasel]

“What are you prepared to do!?!â€

To steal a line from The Untouchables, but what are you prepared to do if you are the victim of a possible/potential home invasion?

Hardcore criminals such as those who would be so audacious to press an attack against your home, invasion style one can only assume will come moderately prepared and just maybe, even planned out as well.

It seems that more and more we are seeing telling first hand accounts and news stories of these horrifying crimes and the inside accounts give you some idea just how sudden these things go down and how little time you will have to react.

Stop and think for a minute, right now sitting at your computer screen, in this very instant your world changes with the sound of your door coming off it’s hinges, that big sliding glass patio door exploding into a thousand pieces or the sounds of both, multiple entry points being utilized.

Screams for others in your home may follow or if you are like me you are own your own.

 

[Sindawe]

Everything that is permited to me under the law, which includes the use of deadly force since I live in Colorado. I've covered this issue in other threads, no need to reiterate here.

 

[ZeroX]

Whatever I could do with the time given to me.

 

[KaceCoyote]

I have a AK hanging on my door and 3 thirty rounders by my bed full've 147 grain softpoint. He will not leave this house in the same condition he entered.

 

[Del3030k]

11 rounds of .45 FMJ is coming for them. God willing, I'll wake up tommorrow and be no worse for the wear, and the intruder can deal with his own consequense. I'm not sure how most people handle digesting that much lead, but I think it may not be too healthy. I probably won't send a card if I am still around.

Stay Safe.

Keith

 

[OrvilleYertleson]

The house is too small for the to get ahold of a long gun in time, but I would have my trusty USP in a heartbeat, and hopefully the GF would get the makarov off of the stand next to it. If someone, in the dark, refuses to retreat and appears to present a threat I would use force to stop them. There is absolutely no way someone would think the house was unoccupied, and considering that we are out in the country where everybody is armed, I would have to assume that they are prepared to deal with anybody they ran into inside.

 

[Plinkerton]

Right now, sitting here at the computer, I would hear the alarm start blaring the instant the door flew open. My girlfriend would start screaming, and I would probably trip over the pile of crap sitting next to me, (we just moved) and fumble to load the 870 sitting here in the closet. It would probably take me a while. This thread has now prompted me to load my shotgun, or at least get my revolver out.

If it was in the middle of the night, I would hope the alarm would wake me up, and give me enough time to grab the 870 (which I load every night and put next to the bed) and tell my girlfriend to roll off the side of the bed onto the floor, as I follwed her down there. I think I would then wait for someone to walk by, or into the room, and do my best to put a hole, or holes in them.

 

[thorn726]

unfortunately for me, the Freakin cowards did plan it out , and came in when both me and my upstairs neighbors were out, gotta love finding out too late your ex roomates are low life con artists.

seeing how i have not much money or anything worth taking, especially since the idiots took the few hockable items i had -small tv, CCs, checks (yes, reported etc), dvds, cds, there really isnt much likeliness to an invasion.

i keep a big knife right next to me in my computer room, and have large blunt metal objects strategically placed Everywhere just in case.
i really want to get a nice sword.
maybe if i was in a big house in the hills, i would be loaded and ready, but here, its just not likely enough. i am poor.
the chances of thieves coming in when im not here are too high to leave my arm anywhere i could get at it, i dont want it stolen.

However- i have caught thieves , coming out of my neighbors apt, and jumping my fence-
both were lame lsoers, unarmed, 1 white, 1 black.

first one got away leaving me holding his sweater becuase i was watching my midrange too much, in case of a sharp.

second one i held in the street until cops arrived and i pressed them to charge him with prowling, but who knows.....

so basically i feel like in stupid Berkeley, if someone even wants to jump my fence, or even wander too far down the driveway, they will run or be held and possibly beaten, and at this point when i hear a noise i grab a wrench or whatever. (a BIG wrench. 1 1/8, 20" heheh).

if 6 guys want to kick my door in and come in with guns, i am not willing to die in a blaze of glory, they can take my stuff.

one guy= he's gonna get ambushed and beat down.
there are limited ways in here <glass>, so i will know they're coming,and have time to hide behind the door or something , waiting.

 

[cracked butt]

The question should be "are the intruders prepared for what is about to happen?"
I like to lounge around the house in my skivvies. I don't think most people are ready for an angry naked giant hairy Polack charging at them.

 

[c22m22c]

i'm so fascinated with guns, that i'm usually cleaning, playing with, dry firing, or doing reload drills all the time. right now...my XD is sitting next to the keyboard. i've got two other guns less than 15 feet away. during pauses in posts, or thinking, i'm fiddling with the gun. sighting it, or working the slide.

in my house...windows are elevated and need some type of platform or buddy assist to reach. doors are more likely. i think i'm ready for it. i don't want to prove that statement though...i'm sure you all understand.

 

[Battlespace]

Since we have three fairly large and somewhat protective mutts, I would probably get some early warning that something was up. With a M1911A1 and 8 rnds + a .50 cal can filled with loaded magazines, a M1200 12 ga with 20 in barrel and 5 rds of a mixture of #8 and #2, a PT99AF 9mm with 16 rds + two extra 15 rd magazines, not to mention the rifles in the closet. The BG would have to be really unobservant as to their environment as there is a state trooper living across the street, a city police officer five houses down the street, another one who shares the backyard fence with me. A county mounty up the street about six houses. Not that I trust them, but with all of them having 24 hr take home cars there is always a Crown Vic of some type parked in the vicinity.

 

[mbs357]

"What are you prepared to do!?!â€

Whatever I can...

 

[ccw007]

The layout of my home there is only one entry point they could rush in and even there it could take them time to get in. It is my front door, which is metal. As I type this I have my 1911 on my hip. I would meet the threat with equal force. It seems that a lot of the home invasion here they enter shooting. This type of crime is going to only grow I am afraid.

 

[Ol' Badger]

"What are you prepared to do!?!â€

To save a family member? Everything and anything. I'd even torture an SOB to save a loved one. But if I can get out with a minium of trouble I will. I can't justify putting all those holes in my drywall otherwise.

 

[Rich K]

Whatever I have to do to protect myself and those I love.

 

[hillbilly]

To Win.........

hillbilly

 

[foghornl]

To cause them {Home Invaders} at least as much misery as they have created for others.

 

[oneshooter]

My situation is diffrent. I live on 25 acres and the house is 100yds off of the road. The house is constructed of 12"thk rock, the doors are 4hr fire rated doors out of a hospital, the windows are double layer laminate.
HOWEVER, whenever myself and/or Loving Wife is home we are armed ( M-60 and Colt 45 )with out personnel carry guns, and the rifles are pulled from the safe ( 30 carbine, AR-15 ).Neither of us is violent prone, her by nature, myself because I have seen too much of it. But we are both determined to get the violence over as soon as possable, and be the only ones standing.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

 

[armoredman]

CZ PO1 and spare mag are on my belt, if I am dressed, and that is whenever up or not in the shower...and it's hidden available in the shower, as well. Wife carries her 90% of the time now, and is getting quite good.
Home invaders would first get about 80 combined pounds of PO'd Cocker Spaniel attacking. Doesn't sound like much, but I HAVE seen them fight. LOTS of fight in these dogs.
Next is my and the wifeypoo - combined total of 36 rounds of 9mm felon repellant from two differant launchers. Gotta watch the crossfire....
Can't think of when I would have to open the safe for one of the Mosin Nagant rifles, but I assume a blast from the M38 would be both attention getting, and fatal to the recipient....or the bayonet on the 91/30, but now I am getting just plain silly.....

 

[Ali]

I thing the first thing you must be prepared to do is wake the f*** up !!

Rising to the occasion is first. I am sometimes a little groggy when I first wake up.

There is no easy way to jump out of bed.I have to work on that.

Then comes .45 + Surefire, at almost the same time.

 

[TallPine]

357 mag is always on my hip, and the loaded (cocked and locked) AK varmit rifle is leaning in the corner of the hall just beyond my (home) office door.

 

[BenW]

and I would probably trip over the pile of crap sitting next to me, (we just moved)

Same for me, except the pile of crap wouldn't be there until after my door was smashed open.

 

[pax]

Prepared to do is the question, guys, not just willing to do.

If my clothes are on, I'm wearing a gun and will use it if I need to.

If I'm in my jammies, I still have all the knowledge I have picked up from various training classes. I know how to do a disarm, I know a few of the basic principles of negotiation, I know the basic spots on the human anatomy where a kick, hit, elbow or palm strike is going to do the most good. This weekend I'm taking a PDR class (Tony Blauer material) to learn a bit more about unarmed defense.

The gun is with me 95% of the time, but whatever I've learned from other people, from classes or books, or from working it out on my own -- all that is with me 100% of the time.

What are you prepared to do? If your hands are empty, is your skills box still full?

pax

 

[ojibweindian]

what are you prepared to do if you are the victim of a possible/potential home invasion?

I will kill.

 

[critter]

If, indeed, they have broken into my OCCUPIED house, you can forget me worrying about negotiations, disarming, physical combat, etc. I will be slinging all the lead I have at my disposal and I will not be worrying about holes in the sheetrock or even holes in the neighborhood homes. And, I will worry about lawsuits later too.

My 870 has a full magazine with an empty chamber, safety off and hammer down. A 1/8 sec shuck and it will become very loud several times. (See, I said WILL, cause both me and my 870 are WILLing.) When it is dry, I will grab one or more available handguns and go for slidelock-until everything in the house but me gets REALLY STILL.

Then, after close inspection, I will call 911 and ask for an officer to come make a report. THEY can decide if an ambulance is needed. While the officer comes, I will call my lawyer and I will REMAIN VERY QUIET when the officer arrives-remember, it can be used against you.

What are you NOT willing to do? I am not willing to be disarmed. I am not willing to be taken to a secondary crime scene. I am not willing to let family members be taken away either. If necessary, I will take carefully aimed head shots or whatever is needed to free hostages to keep the above from happening because there is no return from those secondary plaes.

When the door is kicked down, THEN IS NOT the time to begin to decide what you are willing to do. You better KNOW what you are willing to do and GET AT IT!

I have had family members in the above situation and I have seen what can happen. I have ALREADY decided that an all-out, immediate, furious take-no-prisioners attack is the only way to go. I will.