In the day, we made bigger ones for bottle rocket wars on the 4th. Attach that to a "protest sign stick" which is rounded 3x3 hickory and a plaquard both sides, I could see being someone's sidekick in Kenosha.
In the edged forums of yore, a cutlass over the front door was recommended - this could work as the companion piece. After all, MOST home intrusions are a knock on the door, "can I use your phone my cell is dead" kind of thing. It's the people who open the door never thinking about someone knocking them over who get knocked over, beaten, the house ransacked, or worse.
Consider they sell bullet resistant backpacks for gradeschoolers. What we might see as ridiculous out in our chain link ghetto suburban life would be a necessary piece of equipment in public housing in Houston post Katrina.