What to do in the event of a break-in

My teacher told me the same thing.

 

TN has some of the same laws as mentioned above, like there has to be a weapon in the intruders hand and they are in fact there to hurt you. The way i look at it is i have a few extra odd knives in the kitchen that the intruder brought with him if TSHTF. I have my 45 next to the bed in the back of the house and my AK is in the mudroom near the front of hte house. I wanted weapons in different areas because i have been robbed twice but both times my wife and i were at work. If i come home and someone is in hte back of the house i can make it to my AK and vice versa. As far as a plan if we are home.... My wife will get our little girl and stay in the closet until i check everything out.... of course she has two 12 ga in the closet with her until she hears my voice. It is something that you will never expect and i hope that i don't have to shoot anyone but if they are in my house even attempting to hurt one of us then it is tough S*#t for them.

 

Honestly, I don't have a plan. Fortunately, I don't feel the need to sleep ontop of a pile of loaded weapons, I don't watch TV with a gun within arm's reach, I don't posess a handgun/assault rifle/tactical shotgun. I'm not knocking those of you that live this way.......just glad that I don't.

I should add, if someone enters my house by force (regardless of intentions), I will feel threatened and will do whatever I have to to insure the safety of my family.....I won't ask questions 1st.

 

My two cents on this..... if you have a family and it's in the middle of the night you should first secure and account for each member before walking around all gun happy “now don't take me wrong by all mean grab you loaded weapon but collect and account for each member before you go off through the rest of the house" I think in my case I would secure my family in a room with a cell phone, bat/knife/or second weapon before I go off to check out what’s going on in the rest of the house... I've heard of to many people being over power and losing their weapon or what’s worst running through the house to find out what’s going on and shooting a family member by accident… but that just my two cents or so…. And that not to say I won’t drop any person caught in my home before I asked any questions later “lol”

 

She would have kicked your ass seven ways from Sunday.

I just tell anyone who stays at my house that if they hear something/someone breaking in that they had better get low, cause I won't run around my house telling said badguy that I am armed.
Get Low. Don't come running into my bedroom because my wife is in there with me and I will shoot anyone who comes through that door, questions asked after the fact.

 

Personally, I wouldn't talk about planting weapons on an potential intruder in a public forum. Should it ever happen, a prosecutor could use those statements against you if they can link the statements to you.

I would stay in a room, call 911 and leave the phone off the hook so that anything said would be recorded by the 911 operator.

 

Agreed.

No way am I going to hide in my own house. You call 911 or have another family member do so. And then you tell the lowlife to GTFO and if they do not comply and enter your house shoot to kill. You gave them a warning and it was not heeded. I refuse to sit and wait for someone else to decide my fate without my say.

 

I'm not trained to clear a house. It's not so much hiding as taking up a tactical position. You're assuming you know where he is or that you'll get to him before he enters your house. If I'm in the room or blocking the entrance, I know where the intruder has to come through to get to me and the family. It allows me to be prepared to shoot at a smaller defined space. If I start wandering around the house, I could be surprised and hit from behind.

 

True. True indeed.