Mother defends life and child with home safety device.

[ileus]

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120907/ARTICLES/120909801/1088/sports?Title=Deputies-say-woman-protecting-toddler-fires-shots-at-intruder

The incident was reported on Jolly Road in Gaffney about 10:45 a.m. Sheriff Steve Mueller said the resident heard someone ringing her doorbell, so she ran to her bedroom with her toddler.

The man ringing the bell kicked in the front door, then kicked in the bedroom door and met the resident, who shot at him, Mueller said.

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Nice to see good news of firearms making life better for people. As intended by the manufactures of self defense firearms.

[safeinOhio]

1. For under $100 you can make your doors

difficult if not impossible to kick in or force open. For about $40/window you can install a security film that makes it difficult if not impossible to break and inter thru a window. While there is nothing wrong with a gun for home protection, other than shooting the wrong person, having it stolen or accidental misfire, cheap home security should be your first line of defense.

Most of the stories posted today by both sides could have been stopped with cheap home security used. If you have a gun for home safety, please make it the last thing you need to defend yourself and family. Also, if you are not at home, when most crimes happen, your security measures are still at work.

[ileus]

2. I recommend community grants....for parts and installation.

[safeinOhio]

4. Those grants would be

Cheaper than community grants for quality fire arms and few hundred rounds for everyone.


If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[Missycim]

8. So you are only

going to depend on a door? Its better to have a layered defense.

[holdencaufield]

10. Area Denial Weapons

Caltrops and Claymores are proven effective

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. I want a directed energy weapon

[4th law of robotics]

11. The president is surrounded by security you wouldn't believe

and yet presidents are still killed.

/far more than your community grants could ever provide.

[Atypical Liberal]

3. In many places that is illegal.

In many places, it is illegal to fortify a home such that it can't be broken into.

Also there may be safety considerations if you cannot quickly escape your home in an emergency, such as a fire.

[safeinOhio]

5. All I have suggested are legal in every state.

Doors and windows that can easily opened from the inside are safe and legal. I think you are taking about bars and grates. Could you point out any state or local laws that prohibit what I have suggested, like security window films or anti door kick in measures?

[Atypical Liberal]

6. I'll have to go digging for them.

Doors and windows that can easily opened from the inside are safe and legal. I think you are taking about bars and grates. Could you point out any state or local laws that prohibit what I have suggested, like security window films or anti door kick in measures?

I'll have to go looking for them, but I remember reading in the past how it is illegal to fortify your home.

I believe this is aimed specifically at gangsters who try to build a fortification that cannot be broken into by the police.

[rDigital]

23. I can't wait to carry a door lock around with me. Best protection ever. I also wear the window

Film over my chest to keep intruders out.

[oneshooter]

24. Wouldn't it work better to keep"intruders" out if you wear it somewhere else? n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

7. For the time of drilling a hole above the window latch

in a position that no one can enter, you run a nail or screw into the drilled hole and the window can't be opened any further.

[4th law of robotics]

9. Sounds like victim blaming

"Here's what you did to make yourself the victim of this assault"

Doesn't the perpetrator bear at least some of the blame?

/and no comments on how she was dressed?

[safeinOhio]

13. Not anymore than blaming a victim for not

having a Remington 870 under the bed.

/and no comments on locking a door either?

[4th law of robotics]

14. If someone chooses not to have a gun and they are victimized

that is their choice, not their fault.

You can do everything right and still be a victim. Not so?

You may as well demand they be rich so they can live in a safe neighborhood. Yeah, that would be nice. Not always possible though and not a sure-thing either.

[safeinOhio]

16. "You can do everything right and still be a victim"

we can agree on that. You can have a gun and, or, cheap home security, or expensive home security, or an expensive gun and still become a victim. You CAN reduce the odds.

To bitch at someone that suggest reducing the odds is pretty crazy.

[glacierbay]

12. I teach residents of the city I am employed in

about home security and you are quite correct, there are several cheap ways to fortify your home against intruders, one of my recommendations, after securing your doors and windows, is get a dog, keep cell phone in your bedroom.

A firearm is always a last resort

[safeinOhio]

15. 3 inch screws in all strikers and hinges.

A peep hole to look out without being seen. Fake stickers that say protected by security alarms and cameras. Dummy cameras are real cheap. They even have an alarm now that senses people coming up to the door, it gives off sounds a barking dog that gets loader as the person gets closer. Motion detectors on your porch lights have come way down in price.

As I said, whats going to protect your gun collection when you are not at home? A thief can break in and steel a gun safe bolted to the floor in less than 20 minutes.

If you want to have a gun or not, these measures can reduce the chance of being a victim by 90%. Crooks hit the easy houses first, unless they know you keep lots of cash, have guns or drugs. Of course if these measures were taking by more folks there would be more space on google.

[Clames]

17. The reality is...

...is that your suggestions do not even come close to making a standard entry door break in resistant. You are obviously no carpenter or even a competent DIY'er or you would know entry doors already have 3" screws in most houses built in the last 15 years. You are also forgetting, or just plain lack the knowledge, of how doors are framed in standard rough openings.

[trouble.smith]

18. where there's a will, there's a way. always.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. correction

according to Yuri Orlov: "Where there's a will, there's a weapon."

[trouble.smith]

21. tell that to the antis.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

22. Umm

I do, quite often.