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Wake-up Call
On the topic of preparedness, but slightly different, consider this.
After you prepare for a fire, tornado, etc., and have your drills down, think about what you need to do in the event of an intruder (or multiples) in your home.
What is your drill?
Who else is in the home and what are their responsibilities?
How do you protect them?
Can your spouse use a firearm to hold a door or hallway/defend herself?
How will you notify your family that there is an intruder and to initiate the reaction plan?
Do you have near and far rally points?
Do you have a signal for the family to flee the house for the rally point?
Do you have a trusted neighbor who will quickly let you/your family in in the middle of the night and protect them?
What gear would you need to protect yourself, defend your home, and ensure a positive outcome for you and yours?
Where is it now?
How will you carry it?
How long does it take you to gather and don it?
How long does it take you to identify that there is an intruder, initiate your drill, and be ready to engage?
Just a few random thoughts since I was recently asked if I had a plan. Admittedly, this is likely a low-probability event, but the consequences of being unprepared are huge.
Anyone want to join in?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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