Personal Protection inside the home while asleep or showering

[Jframe.38]

I want to get a take on people's tactics on this board for personal protection inside the home especially during times when it is hard to follow the Cooper color code like while sleeping or showering.

In the shower. I take whatever pocket carry gun that I am carrying with me that day into the bathroom and lock the door. I leave the pocket gun on the toilet lid next to the shower. Usually it ends up being a subcompact glock or j frame .38.

I always have a weapon within arms reach while in the house. Usually it is the jframe .38 which is a perfect pocket gun and bathrobe gun.

Carry twenty four seven with a reliable firearm is my motto or guess right. My little .38 or subcompact glock next to the shower or in my pocket beats any tacticool rifle that is on the other side or story of my house.

I used to think house/shower carry was paranoid until I heard a loud thunk while I was on the opposite end of the house and had no way to get to my firearm. Fortunately it was just my puppy running into the china cabinet, but it prompted the idea of what would I do if anyone broke in while I was on the opposite end of my home. If you review crime statistics you will notice that most rapes occur in someone's residence. For this reason I carry a gun while at home and have one next to me when showering. Whenever I am in a state that prevents me from fully following the Cooper color code like sleeping and showering I add at least an extra layer of security by strong pointing the room I am in and setting the alarm. These layers of security alert me and buy me time to get my firearm and call law enforcement. These are good sound principles of personal protection inside the home, particularly for those of us who live by ourselves.

Basically my strategy while sleeping, napping, watching TV which becomes napping and showering is to have a firearm with in arm's reach, strong point the room by locking that room for an additional layer of security, arming my alarm and having a cell phone handy.

Does anyone else have anything constructive to add to this or want to share their tactics techniques and procedures TTPs?

 

[Smith]

While your topic is interesting, it has just been covered by another member a short time ago. The thread was locked today, but it still contains 4 pages of information which you may find helpful. Here's the link: http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=448221

 

[Oyeboten]

Under a folded Towel on the Toilet Tank top...or similar close and within easy reach...usually was the traditional recourse for when Showering...

Under the Pillow...for when Sleeping or doing naked-bed-recreation-things...

 

[Fred Fuller]

This is close enough to material that's been well done here lately that we aren't going to do it again.

Home security any time is home securiity ALL the time. It doesn't matter what you are doing at home, if someone can make their way up to your house without your knowing it, and make their way into your house without your knowing it. Your job is to establish multiple layers of security around your home, to establish your home AS a secure perimeter, to make sure no attemt at breaching that perimeter goes unnoticed, and to be prepared to successfully cope with any criminal attempts to breach that perimeter.

What you happen to be doing inside your home if and when an attempt at intrusion is made has no bearing on the tasks mentioned above. We will focus on these specific tasks here, not on any of the domestic activities which might be taking place inside the home.

lpl