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Originally Posted by frostfire
.....what can provide the same deterrent effect as a racked shotgun? Sound of a pair of rott scratching and growling behind the door?..... How about a poster that says: this house is under divine protection of Chuck Norris?
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No guns or dogs? Is your plan to defend or to escape?
You need to step out to the street and look at your home, both in the daytime and at night.
Single family home, condo unit, first floor or second floor? Urban, Suburban or Rural? Close to an area of the city where large crowds could gather and riot? Neighbors that would help or are you on your own?
Dark areas, shadows around your house? Low large windows or high small ones?
One easy fix for the front door is to have a solid metal or wood door (with a good peep hole) and replace all the hing/lock plate srews with longer screws that go into the 2x4s that surround the door frame. Then use a door guard bar with a non-skid pad that slips under the door knob and goes down to the floor. A setup like that is hard to kick through.
Sliding patio doors - look nice and let the sun in but they don't hold up well to a grill being thrown through them.
Bad guys like to come into a house quick through a doorway or quiet crawling through a window. Make it hard for them to get through a window quickly and you only have to worry about the first guy coming in. You can take your baseball bat and have some batting pratice with his head. Drop him in the window and you make it just that much harder for the next one.
Blades and bats are a bit harder than firearms. If thats all you've got you can't be saying "One more step and I'll hit you." as you're backing up. They will get in and then their friends. Then they will overpower you.
Somebody sticks their head in you nail them just as hard and as fast as you can. Stop the first one at the door/window and the rest may back up.
"Man, there is one crazy ninja chick living in that house."