{"id":61666,"date":"2016-08-04T13:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=61666"},"modified":"2016-08-04T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T02:07:08","slug":"ep-15-shoot-home-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ep-15-shoot-home-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full.jpg\" alt=\"intrusion of a burglar in a house inhabited\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iStock_000078960213_Full-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following is a post from Sammy Reese, a former Marine Corps Artillery Officer and retired police officer from California. He is a part-time range master for the police department he retired from as well as a life-long martial artist and combatives coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the last five episodes in this series:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-10-shoot-restaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\">Ep. 10 Should I Shoot? Restaurant Etiquette\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/should-i-shoot-inside-the-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\">Ep. 11 Should I Shoot? Inside the Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-12-shoot-spare-parachute\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\">Ep. 12 Should I Shoot? Spare Parachute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-13-shoot-disparity-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\">Ep. 13 Should I Shoot? Understanding Disparity of Force<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/should-i-shoot-gun-free-zone-not-helpless\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\">Ep. 14 Should I Shoot? \u2018Gun-Free Zone\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Mean You\u2019re Helpless<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good friend of mine recently moved back to his hometown after being away for more than 20 years. What he found was the place kind of looked the same, but the crime rate was at a level of a third-world, cartel-controlled drug town. Home invasions were a daily thing, and he has a family to protect.<\/p>\n<p>He was what some would call a gun guy growing up but had not spent much time shooting other than some sporting clays. The call went something like this: \u201cSammy, I need some advice on how to better secure the house. What guns should I get?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some discussion about alarm systems, cameras, a big dog and making the house more secure, we got into the guns part. Bill immediately took my advice about selecting the proper firearms and getting some quality training so he could get his concealed pistol permit. He\u2019s even doing some shooting competitions to keep his skills sharp.<\/p>\n<p>During one of our many conversations, the topic of where to keep guns for easy access while in the house came up. This took us down the road of \u201cwhat if?\u201d questions as they pertained to what I call \u201crepelling boarders\u201d or \u201cdefending the castle\u201d from a home-invasion robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Home-invasion-type robberies are at the top of the list for violent crime \u2014 just under premeditated murder. More often, home-invasion robberies involve those in the home being beaten, raped and murdered. I\u2019ve seen the aftermath of home-invasion crime scenes firsthand, so what I\u2019ve seen drives me to <em>always<\/em> be armed in my home. If a well-organized robbery crew breaches your home like a SWAT team doing a dynamic entry, you will not have time to get to a safe or other secure location to retrieve a firearm. You will have to fight off the initial wave with what you have on you.<\/p>\n<p>In Bill\u2019s situation, he feels most comfortable carrying a Glock 21 while he\u2019s in the house and out. He\u2019s a big guy and can pull off concealing the big handgun. At first, it felt somewhat strange to him to not take his gun off when he got home, but in time, it became a part of his routine. He now says, \u201cI feel naked without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of you might be saying something like, \u201cI live in a great community. Things like that don\u2019t happen here.\u201d My answer would be, \u201cNot yet.\u201d Ask the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheshire,_Connecticut,_home_invasion_murders\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\"> man in Connecticut <\/a>who watched his family get tortured, raped and murdered while he was bound and beaten and I bet he would have told you the same thing: \u201cBad things don\u2019t happen in our town.\u201d Crooks today are evolving to become better crooks. They learn the most while locked up and, when they get out, they ply their newfound trade on the helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get to the big question this column is about: Should I shoot if someone forces his or her way into my home?<\/p>\n<p>You know I\u2019m going to say I can\u2019t tell you what to do since I\u2019m not in your shoes, but if you aren\u2019t armed or don\u2019t have a firearm within your reach when a crew hits your front door or rear slider, then you will be at their mercy since you can\u2019t defend your family when you are unconscious or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Side note to home invasions: Those really cool stickers folks put on the back of their vehicles showing the stick figures of mom, dad, a couple kids, two dogs and a cat might look great and it shows you love your family. I don\u2019t put them on my vehicles and I urge my friends and you readers to not put them on either. Crook crews do scouting missions of their own before they hit homes invasion-style. One look at the back of your car and they have a pretty good idea how many people and what types of dogs they have to account for in your home. Don\u2019t help them out.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more critical information on the use of deadly force and other firearms and self-defense topics, visit <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-15-shoot-home-defense\" title=\"Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? Carrying a Gun Around the Home for Defense\"><em>www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home-invasion-type robberies are at the top of the list for violent crime \u2014 just under premeditated murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":61670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,234,892,216],"tags":[132,586,291,642],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-columns","9":"category-columns-home-defense","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-column","13":"tag-dgu","14":"tag-should-i-shoot"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 15 Should I Shoot? 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