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Self defense: How prepared are you?

What would you do?

  • Draw or grab a firearm that is immediately next to you

    Votes: 23 32.4%
  • Grab a clubbing weapon that is immediately next to you (ex. Golf club, baseball bat, etc)

    Votes: 6 8.5%
  • Grab a stabbing weapon that is immediately next to you (ex. Kitchen knife, pocket knife, etc)

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Run to another room to grab a locked up or hidden firearm and confront the home invaders

    Votes: 11 15.5%
  • Run to another room to grab a stabbing or clubbing weapon and confront the home invaders

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • Run to another room and attempt to hide while dialing 911

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Run out the backdoor of the house and attempt to escape

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Freeze like a deer in the headlights

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Rush the bad guys barehanded

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 12 16.9%

  • Total voters
    71
yet another reason to have a dog.

That and everyone with kids needs a big friendly well-trained dog that can accompany them in their adventures. Doesn't have to be huge, just big enough to put a bite on someone.

No predator is going to mess with kids that have a dog with them. Period. And even friendly dogs will protect their "kids". Its instinct.
 
I have already shot over the heads of poachers on my land, who mouthed off to my wife after she told them, politely that they were on private property. The straw that broke the camel's back was after they called her a bitch. Now, she can be a bitch, but that advice given to her is only reserved for me, not anybody else.
 
That and everyone with kids needs a big friendly well-trained dog that can accompany them in their adventures. Doesn't have to be huge, just big enough to put a bite on someone.

No predator is going to mess with kids that have a dog with them. Period. And even friendly dogs will protect their "kids". Its instinct.

when I was a kid, we had this big fluffy GS/collie. friendly to everyone. one day a bunch of us kids were playing football in the yard and one of the guys tackled me. damn dog nearly took his head off. knocked him down and kept him pinned to the ground with teeth bared right by the kids ear growling. my dad had to come and pull the dog away. needless to say, from then on, the dog was on a chain in the back yard
 
In the aforementioned situation, I'd draw my gun on them and order the two guys to stop, if they didn't they'd get shot, but I wouldn't shoot to kill.
 
#1.. but I wouldn't just shoot the two of them like some people in this thread say they are going to do...
 
In the aforementioned situation, I'd draw my gun on them and order the two guys to stop, if they didn't they'd get shot, but I wouldn't shoot to kill.

**** that, shoot to kill. dead men can't file lawsuits.
 
if i had a house, i would run out the back door. since i have a condo, i would be trapped and forced to grab a knife and scream my guts out, i guess. also, since i have a condo, it's pretty unlikey to happen.
 
I had a loaded pistol pointed at me when a caught someone damaging our property. He wasn’t prepared for my knowledge of people. I was talking to him to calm him down and make a mistake so I could get control of the situation, get his gun and kill him with it. But someone saw what was happening and called the police. They arrived in a coordinated way, perfectly, with guns drawn. He was busted. I testified at trial. He went to jail for a short time. I often have a knife that opens with one hand, swing blade, most of the time; mostly for fishing and convenience on projects; but I could use it for protection. I’m dangerous since I had so many fights as a kid, I was small and often alone doing stuff. So, how should I answer your poll? And why "black males", the one that pulled a gun on me was white?

Only you can answer how you'd react in a situation like this where a split second is all the time you have to judge the appropriate response. Trying to debate between several courses of action likely isn't going to be the speediest option. :shrug:

Also, the description of the bad guys in the OP were taken from the actual report of the incident that occurred in my area, in order to maintain the accuracy of the scenario. This has already been mentioned several times.

Personally, I find that with small children in my house, the safest place for an unsecured firearm is on my hip. I have an allergy to dogs, so a furry door guard is out of the question, but anyone coming through my door while I'm in the immediate vicinity will be greeted with a drawn handgun and a loud verbal warning to get the hell out. If I'm in a different part of the house and can easily round up the family, I'll barricade everyone in to the bedroom and wait with a 12 guage, while I call the police. My wife is similarly armed, so there's a good chance we could even out the odds with multiple home invaders. :)
 
Next to my bed I have a .45 When at home I carry a .40 and .380 at all times

Federal law does not allow me to carry when in my big truck
 
Huh...for some reason I never even figured the dogs into the equation. Ive got a samoyed husky and a mutt with a massive chest, legs like a horse, and the head of an alligator...both go about 80 pounds. Id imagine they would be very interesting to watch if someone managed to kick in the door...
 
Huh...for some reason I never even figured the dogs into the equation. Ive got a samoyed husky and a mutt with a massive chest, legs like a horse, and the head of an alligator...both go about 80 pounds. Id imagine they would be very interesting to watch if someone managed to kick in the door...

As loyal and fierce as an animal may be, I prefer to know that I can ensure my own safety even without them. In other words, dogs are a great additional asset to have when it comes to protecting your home, but I think the only thing you can count on in a emgergency is your own reaction.
 
Huh...for some reason I never even figured the dogs into the equation. Ive got a samoyed husky and a mutt with a massive chest, legs like a horse, and the head of an alligator...both go about 80 pounds. Id imagine they would be very interesting to watch if someone managed to kick in the door...

i Have a Siberian Husky that will lick you to death but I also have an English Mastiff
 
I have a loaded firearm in any of the rooms I am likely to be in or near - the living, dining, family, TV, fireplace and library, as well as the master bed; unless circumstances are very unusual (or contrived), I will have quick access to a gun.

Presuming this is the case, I would use said gun to cover the newly-crowned unluckiest people in the world until the police show up.
 
Yelling some version of "Martha get the shotgun" over your shoulder, then turning back and smiling like its "free killing day" might be worth a shot too.:mrgreen:
Sweetheart! Come quick and bring your new 44! We get to try out the Hydrashocks!
 
I'm not at all prepared, because I don't have to be.
 
In the aforementioned situation, I'd draw my gun on them and order the two guys to stop, if they didn't they'd get shot, but I wouldn't shoot to kill.

You'd order them to stop? While you were saying, "St....," one of them would put a bullet in your head. They're ready. You're not. Crooks don't warn. They shoot to kill. I'm just sayin'..... ;)
 
As loyal and fierce as an animal may be, I prefer to know that I can ensure my own safety even without them. In other words, dogs are a great additional asset to have when it comes to protecting your home, but I think the only thing you can count on in a emgergency is your own reaction.

True...but a big ass barking dog makes for a nice distraction when you are closing ground. I dont figure in that situation I get on equal footing (as they are probably armed and there are two of them) so Im looking for any and every distraction or edge...hence the remote control to the face at 65 mph. I dont care who you are...you are flinching. Thats all Im looking for.
 
You'd order them to stop? While you were saying, "St....," one of them would put a bullet in your head. They're ready. You're not. Crooks don't warn. They shoot to kill. I'm just sayin'..... ;)

That's not really true. Not all crooks are all hardened cold blood killers who are prepared to kill an entire family just to rob a stereo and a computer.
 
That's not really true. Not all crooks are all hardened cold blood killers who are prepared to kill an entire family just to rob a stereo and a computer.

If they kick your door in on a home invasion while you are present I wouldnt be counting on the milk of human kindness to carry the day...just sayin...
 
Whatever you do in a situation like that depends on how much reaction time you have. Usually it's quicker to react with your body then it is to react physically by turning your attention to equipping yourself a gun...
 
Huh...for some reason I never even figured the dogs into the equation. Ive got a samoyed husky and a mutt with a massive chest, legs like a horse, and the head of an alligator...both go about 80 pounds. Id imagine they would be very interesting to watch if someone managed to kick in the door...

I had not considered it either, but that's my first line of defense, two big lab/retriever mixes. They are sweethearts to the family, but they've sent more than one stranger hopping backward off my doorstep when they got a load what was barking and snapping behind the door. :D The female is particularly fierce and protective.

No one has mentioned a cellphone. While my dogs kept them busy, I'd be dialing 911 while I grabbed an Easton bat and my pepper spray.
 
Well, let's see... I don't have kids and I am not married. There is nothing in my house I willing to die for, so why go all territorial and try to defend my property with lethal force just because.. There is two of them, one of me.. they could have more guns than me. **** my property. I'd probably flee, because that would be a form of protecting myself.
 
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