More important question, how is your dog doing?
Asking the important questions here!
More important question, how is your dog doing?
I wake up enough to pee at night its muscle memory
If I trained that way, I will probably run downstairs, pull out my member and pee on the intruder.
If in my bedroom, god help anyone trying to come in. You will not be leaving alive.
Still trying to warm every else over to the idea of having a shotgun or rifle in the kitchen/dining room/living room area but what type of firearm and where/how to store it IDK yet. Little kids,minors or someone who should not have access to a gun are not an issue in our circumstances.
With kids in the house and no carry permit it's hard to be locked and loaded everywhere but I try. Combination cable locks can be kept 1 digit off for cheap, fast, kid safe gun stashing.
More important question, how is your dog doing?
We had a few experiences here in our little neighborhood. Shortly after we moved in, around 2003, I came home from work to find our neighbor out front on his step, and the Westminster city police out front. Evidently while at work, someone attempted to get into 3, 4 houses on our block. Our screens were cut, screen frames bent from trying to be pried. We replaced our windows (needed it anyways), with higher strength windows with better locks, and I painted some white dowels and stuck them in between the lower window and upper frame, to prevent the window from being forced up. We even had a sheriff deputy's car across the street, marked cruiser, and it didn't deter someone.
Then maybe, 12-14 years ago, around 11:30 at night, kids in bed, I am in the basement doing something, my wife up in the living room. All the sudden she comes to the top of the stairs, yelling down, asking me what I am doing. I told her, and she asked me if I was messing with the front door. I asked her how I could do that from the basement. She said then someone was trying to get in. The door knob was jiggling, and the door frame was flexing, and she heard the pushing on the door. Fortunately the door held. It's a steel door but the frame is cheap wood. I grabbed a pistol, and went out front to investigate ( probably, well, most likely the wrong thing to do), and my neighbor 2 houses down was out front. He said 4-5 young adults were going down the houses trying to get in. He chased them off while holding his .357 revolver.
Since then we have added motion detecting lights, reinforced the door frame, open the powder room door in the foyer at night to jam the front door from opening. We have a lock on our rear gate, and a bar in the track of our rear sliding door. I have a pistol and light close by the bed, and motion detecting LED light in the hallways. That certainly helps considering it was shocking to wake up one night to discover my daughter sleep walking. We still have some stuff to do. With the section 8 crackheads next door now, we installed some hidden motion activated cameras last summer when we went on vacation. Caught my dad checking for leaking water after a rain storm.
Last year, summer or early fall, don't recall, we were awaken suddenly at 5AM to banging and vibrations. Turned out to be the Swat team kicking down our neighbors door. While a stunning incident, I was relieved I was able to wake up and assess the situation quickly enough, before they were able to make entry into their house, so hopefully I'd be able to respond to a bad guy trying to enter our home. I think lighting is extremely vital, especially having kids. I snuck out several times as a kid, and fortunately I was either stealthy enough, or my dad slept like a brick. But identification, in my opinion is extremely important in being able to identify a threat. I have a separate flashlight with laser and strobe, plus a light and laser on my pistol and shotgun. Also need to be able to improvise just about anything into a weapon, depending on what is close by. But, we are looking at getting a Ring doorbell as well. They seem to be helpful, and our neighbors love theirs.