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Defending yourself in your home

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Best Buckeye

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IN view of a recent spike in home break ins and proposed legislation to allow people to have more freedom in defending themselves what would you do to defend your self and your family?
There is a mind set out there that feels that all defense should be left up to law enforcement agencies. Of course we all know that in most life life threatening instances we would be dead before the police even left the donut shop.
In my mind if someone breaks into my house I would just plain shoot them.

Ohio has a proposed law that puts the challenge of disproving intent upon prosecuting attorneys rather than you.

The blade has been running some articles about break ins in the last week since a prominent family was assaulted int their home.
Here is an article about the proposed change.
The Blade

Ohio set to expand limits on self-defense
COLUMBUS - Potential victims who harm or kill apparent intruders in their homes or vehicles would get the legal benefit of the doubt under a just-passed bill destined to get Gov. Ted Strickland's signature.

Sponsored by state Sen. Stephen Buehrer (R., Delta) and pushed by the National Rifle Association, the measure served as a magnet for changes to Ohio's 4-year-old law allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns.

The changes will make it easier for motorists to carry weapons in their cars and in school zones and will prohibit landlords from forbidding tenants from having guns in their rented residences.
 
This is one of the articles about the rise in home invasions.
The Blade
Expert detects rise in home invasions
When the doorbell rang late one night, Mahamed Moubarak, then 14, opened the door at his West Toledo house, thinking it might be one of his friends.

Instead, it was a man who said he was looking for a party.

The teenager told him he must have the wrong house, but when he went to close the door, the man stuck his foot in the doorway and forced it open.

Then he pulled out a gun and ordered Mr. Moubarak and his father to the floor.

Another assailant wearing a ski mask, who had been hiding outside the house, came inside.

The intruders bound the father and son's wrists and ankles with duct tape and repeatedly demanded to know where they kept their money.

Visibly angry, one of the robbers put a gun to the back of the teenager's head, cocked it, and threatened to kill him unless they got what they came for.

Mr. Moubarak said he was prepared to die at that point.

"It was possibly the coldest feeling I've ever had," he said.


So how far would you go to defend your home and family?
Would you hope for the best and cooperate with the intruders?
Would you depend on the police?
Would you defend yourself if the opportunity arose, even with deadly force?

What would you do if one of your family members was being viciously assaulted?
 
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I have an 80 pound rottweiler/saint bernard mix and a .38 next to my bed. If im not in bed I have an 8 inch Kbar in computer desk and a pair of brass knuckles and a can of mace in the living room.
 
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I agree with BB and Buckeye Soldier. Defend your turf if some stupid individual breaks in. My good friend had some crazed crack head try to break in and once the glass window broke, the dude tried to enter and got beat with a ball bat. Needless to say the dope fiend is facing serious charges of home invasion with a broken leg and all kinds of ribs broke awaiting tria in jail with a huge bond.
 
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You guys are crazy! You should just hide and call the authorities. Never try and take it into your own hands. Most of the thieves just want stuff, they don't want to hurt you.

I say just lay low and call the police.
 
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BUCKYLE;1174223; said:
You guys are crazy! You should just hide and call the authorities. Never try and take it into your own hands. Most of the thieves just want stuff, they don't want to hurt you.

I say just lay low and call the police.
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Noboby should get disrespected and let some dumb ass take there stuff. A beat down is in effect, because the time the cops got to the house he would be long gone and never caught.
 
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BuckeyeSoldier;1174203; said:
I have an 80 pound rottweiler/saint bernard mix and a .38 next to my bed. If im not in bed I have an 8 inch Kbar in computer desk and a pair of brass knuckles and a can of mace in the living room.
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Get out of the ghetto much? :biggrin:
 
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BuckeyeRyn;1174229; said:
Get out of the ghetto much? :biggrin:
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lmao, no im just used to growing up in a house with a pile of shotguns next to the door a .45 on top of the fridge and a crossbow in my bedroom.. and those are just the "functional" weapons... add in things like hachets and machettes just laying around the house and you found yourself in my parents house..

I am used to living in a place where they still dont even lock their doors but as you can see there is plenty of reason for not needing to.
 
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Best Buckeye;1174232; said:
Just curious as to what you would do if they started severely beating your family members , even to the point where you feared for their lives?
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Well, first things first....

I don't make many enemies who would want to come in and beat me, or my family senseless. Thus, I find the highly remote chance of some dude breaking in to my house with the intent of kicking ass more than a little preposterous.

They can take my things... thus the insurance. And again, the idea of a burglary occurring while we're home is - in my neighborhood - pretty much absurd. I'm not leaving lethal weaponry around the house for my kids to discover especially when the chances of me needing it are desperately slim.
 
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BuckeyeSoldier;1174236; said:
lmao, no im just used to growing up in a house with a pile of shotguns next to the door a .45 on top of the fridge and a crossbow in my bedroom.. and those are just the "functional" weapons... add in things like hachets and machettes just laying around the house and you found yourself in my parents house..

I am used to living in a place where they still dont even lock their doors but as you can see there is plenty of reason for not needing to.
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"functional" weapons in our house include a frying pan (cast iron, non-the-less) a 6# malti-poo that will drive your tympanic membranes over the edge, and a 100# chocolate lab that will lick you to death.
 
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