Every chud in my life is obsessed with someone breaking into their house and the situation being resolved with the discharge of a firearm. And these are people living in low crime areas out in the suburbs, with no pedestrians. It's frustrating to talk with these people since their whole worldview is a racist panic over some imagined brown interloper invading their white fortresses.
One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening. Another has a CCTV system and an AR15 by his bed. I personally don't own a gun anymore because I don't trust myself with one, and chuds will ask me what I'll do if some mentally unwell person high on amphetamines decided to enter my apartment. I guess I'd leave or call an ambulance? It seems so unlikely of a scenario that even if I had a firearm I probably wouldn't use it right, or even register this person as a threat quickly enough to do a John Wick style takedown.
How many home invasions are actually stopped this way? Do chuds all think they're Robocop?
I once had a really drunk guy bang on my door at like midnight thinking there was a party or something. I said there wasn’t anything there for him and he started getting really aggressive trying to shove the door open but luckily I was wearing shoes and just blocked it with my foot. If he hasn’t been being so unpredictable I’d have offered him some water or food but I just closed and locked the door. He banged on the door for another 15 min or so before getting bored and leaving. I didn’t call the cops or anything. I have a 2 1/2ish foot aluminum tee ball bat near my door though but I’ve never even had to consider grabbing it before.
Re; Knocking doors down. You can get a big brass or steel latch plate for your door. It replaces the little brass plate that comes with the door. You secure it to the door frame with sturdy 3+ inch screws. Then if someone tries to kick the door in the force is spread over a much wider area using screws that are much more securely attached to the wood than normal screws. That means they have to hit the door a lot harder to break the door open.
It won't stop someone breaking in if they really want to, but it'll prevent someone from kicking the door in in a couple of kicks. Probably one of the more effective security measures you can do that actually helps somewhat and has some actual value.
There are also all kinds of floor wedges. Some you just kick under the door. Others, you drill a hole in the floor and if you want to keep someone out you drop the wedge in so the door cannot open. They make it much more difficult to open the door without actually destroying it.
Re: the bat;
I would strongly encourage you to get some pepper spray as a first option. One of the nice things about pepper spray is that outside of some medical conditions it will not kill or seriously injure the other person. You don't have to threaten them with a weapon and hope they leave so you don't have to hurt them. You can just spray them down as soon as you see them. They'll recover on their own in an hour or two and be no worse for wear by tomorrow. And the way pepper spray works - it forces your eyes shut, it makes you snot everywhere, breathing will hurt like hell, your skin burns, it all means that fighting becomes effectively impossible for someone who has gotten a face full of it.
Those two key things; You won't kill them or even injure them, and they'll be totally unable to fight, make it a very good option for defending yourself. You also don't need to be physically strong or a good fighter to use it. You just point and hold the cap down until it's empty.
Pepper gel is also a great option, less likely to gas yourself with a gel
Get a better weapon. Aluminum bats are generally hollow and weak af.
Not disagreeing but it’s funny to see “get a better weapon” on a post which is mostly about making fun of gun owners. Like the gun owners really already took that advice to heart and got one, you know?
That's true and gave me a giggle. This is based on irl experience unfortunately. I hang out with lots of addicts and homeless people, that's a lot of my friend group and I was living in a punk house at the time where an old friend of my roommate was staying on our couch cause she got evicted. She was banging this dude we all knew and knew was a loose cannon, crackhead who looked like Anthony Keidis in 1992 but with dreads for about a month and when they broke up he decided we were fucking her and that's why and he went ballistic in our place and the aluminum bat my roommate had did fuck all and this dude lived on the street for 20 years, he could fight. However always be using blunt force weapons if you gotta use weapons. Jail time and chance of dying in the fight are way less, gun is like, waaaaaay too much unless you're genuinely in a need a gun scenario, I'll admit your probably personally pretty safe with the gun. Never ever bring out a knife tho, it can very very easily be taken away from you and the fight isn't over once you've pierced flesh, it just means your already very motivated opponent had survival Instinct adrenaline going on in addition to the confidence in attacking you they already had, if it's for attacking people knives kick a lot of ass but you should t attack people, for defense they're basically making any confrontation you bring them into most likely lethal to both participants and if not the survivor goes to prison for manslaughter. Gun is like, nuclear option, but other than more dangerous blunt weapons, don't consider an in between. I've been in situations where judging this stuff can be essential, dude then stalked us and camped outside our house and payed someone to brick our window, serious threats do happen and in those, if you genuinely think it's kill or be killed, get a gun, otherwise bear spray is beat, table legs, solid wood bats and rebar are your friends. There is. No in between Hell, if someone else has a knife a longer blunt weapon will make you safer than having one of your own. However, this isn't going to happen to pretty much anyone, my situation is not a normal person situation. Generally speaking your home is perfectly safe with the door unlocked while you're on vacation.
Just a note; Bear spray is often the same formula as pepper spray for humans. Sometimes it even has fewer active ingredient by weight.
It's more how it sprays. If meant for bear longer range bigger cloud.