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If Someone Was Attempting to Break into Your House What is the First Thing You Would Grab?


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I have a 9mm... and I know how to get to it fast but I'd grab 2 cans of hornet/wasp spray. Fairly cheap but very effective... shoots over 20'. The reason for 2 is that if one fails you have a backup, although they rarely fail. I'm not in a bad area at all but a story I read made me aware of this. Bear spray is expensive and could probably cause harm to yourself... the bouncers at bars use this one if it gets too crazy. 

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15 minutes ago, Process said:

I can't imagine finding someone trying to break into my home and grabbing wasp spray. Sounds like a good way to get yourself killed. 

Ever had it sprayed on your face/eyes? It will ***** you up immediately... 

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6 hours ago, Augie said:

I’m afraid my wasp and bear spray is not in my night stand. Apparently I have failed to properly prepare.  🤷‍♂️

How about your Glock or Beretta?   🤣

 

Personally, I would rush to the kitchen and grab an 8" chef's knife.

 

Why would I reach for this?

 

B/C that's what everyone reaches for in every movie I've ever seen.

 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, Process said:

I can't imagine finding someone trying to break into my home and grabbing wasp spray. Sounds like a good way to get yourself killed. 

Actually, the good way to get yourself killed in this scenario is to own and reach for your 9mm as the OP mentioned.  

 

Statistically speaking anyway.  

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I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended.

 

Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" I shout as I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle.

 

Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot.

 

Draw my pistol and fire at the second man. Miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nail the neighbor's dog instead.

 

I have to resort to my cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot. "Tally ho, lads!" The grapeshot shreds two men in the blast. The sound and extra shrapnel set off every car alarm in the neighborhood.

 

Fix bayonet and charge the final terrified rapscallion. He bleeds out waiting for the police to arrive as triangle-shaped wounds are difficult to stitch up.

 

Just as the founding fathers intended.

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10 hours ago, T&C said:

I have a 9mm... and I know how to get to it fast but I'd grab 2 cans of hornet/wasp spray. Fairly cheap but very effective... shoots over 20'. The reason for 2 is that if one fails you have a backup, although they rarely fail. I'm not in a bad area at all but a story I read made me aware of this. Bear spray is expensive and could probably cause harm to yourself... the bouncers at bars use this one if it gets too crazy. 

I've been thinking about this. Don't have a gun, not sure I would be able to use one if I did. Thanks for the idea.

 

 

10 hours ago, Augie said:

I’m afraid my wasp and bear spray is not in my night stand. Apparently I have failed to properly prepare.  🤷‍♂️

They weren't on mine 15 minutes ago, the wasp spray is now!

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3 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

 

 

 

Actually, the good way to get yourself killed in this scenario is to own and reach for your 9mm as the OP mentioned.  

 

Statistically speaking anyway.  

 

This is actually incorrect. While defensive gun use is relatively uncommon it is highly effective when used.

 

https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#15

 

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A different issue is whether defensive uses of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun-wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies (Kleck, 1988; Kleck and DeLone, 1993; Southwick, 2000; Tark and Kleck, 2004). Effectiveness of defensive tactics, however, is likely to vary across types of victims, types of offenders, and circumstances of the crime, so further research is needed both to explore these contingencies and to confirm or discount earlier findings.

 

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