2. Prevent HOME INVASION
Home invasion is frightening. What is sad, so many of the victims are the elderly who are the most vulnerable. We all want to feel safe in our own homes but this is not always true.
We purchased our home from an elderly woman who had experienced a home invasion through a carport entrance to the kitchen. This is what was done to make her home safe.
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All our windows had holes drilled on each side and a blunt pin, similar to a nail, was placed in these holes. Our windows cannot be opened from outside.
- The other thing they did was replaced the window to the garage and on the inside is a decorative metal grate that is screwed over the window glass.
- All the doors have double bolt locks.
Please go to our Home Security page to read the true story of personal friends who experienced a Home Invasion.
We hope these articles will help you see the need and give you tips to improve the safety of your home and your neighborhood.
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To have a safe neighborhood all of us need to be good neighbors by watching for suspicious persons or cars and then contact the police if you see something unusual.
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For more information on home invasion prevention, call your local police.
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Criminals generally look for opportunities that require the least effort and offer low risk and high gain.
By now, most Americans are familiar with the horrific murder of a Pensacola,
Florida, couple by the name of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Regardless of the "why" and "how" of the killings,
one thing is painfully Obvious: a violent attack took place against a man and his wife inside their Own home. Nationwide, Home invasions are skyrocketing.
Home is the one place where most of us feel safe and protected. Even those
Who have a keen sense of self-defense feel free to let their guard down at
Home. And, sadly, most people do not possess a keen sense of self-defense.
Most people have the deluded opinion that law enforcement will protect them.
But even law enforcement professionals will tell you it is not their job to
Protect citizens; it is their job to apprehend and bring those who have
Committed crimes to justice. In other words, after you are dead, the cops
Will try to catch the guys who killed you.
It is time that people wake up to the fact that the responsibility of
Self-defense rests with each individual citizen. We are all vulnerable to
Attack--even in our homes! For this reason, our federal Constitution and
Most (if not all) State constitutions recognize the Natural Law right of
People to keep and bear arms.
Over the past 40-plus years, however, miscreants in Washington, D.C., and in
Our State capitols have been whittling away at the right of the people to
Keep and bear arms. Lawful gun dealers are being harangued and harassed out
Of existence by the BATFE. Law enforcement agencies and State prosecutors
Often side with criminals when they are shot in self-defense by intended
victims (especially in the Northeast). The media often characterizes lawful
gun owners as "gun nuts" or "militia members" to try to create the
impression that they are "dangerous" or "extremist." Public
education--especially higher education--is often a willing participant in
helping to demonize gun owners. Even Hollywood often uses its influence to
sway public opinion against gun owners. All this, coupled with a natural
lazy tendency of urban living, equates to a careless and defenseless
society: something both would-be tyrants in government and street criminals
love.
Fortunately, America's founders were wiser than most of today's generation.
They understood the relationship between the citizen's right (and
determination) to keep and bear arms and his or her safety and security.
For example, Thomas Jefferson said, "No free man shall ever be debarred the
use of arms." He also said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . .
disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes .
. . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the
assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an
unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
Likewise, Thomas Paine said, "[A]rms, like laws, discourage and keep the
invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as
property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived
of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart
of man, the weak will become prey to the strong. The history of every age
and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments
when they prove themselves."
The Billings double murder is the latest example of just how vulnerable we
all are to the violent tendencies of evil people. For this reason (and
more), every American should (1) resist any and all attempts by government
to curtail or restrict our legal right to keep and bear arms, and (2)
purchase, practice with, and always keep our own personal firearms handy.
Furthermore, we should always live in a heightened "state of alert" (even in
our own homes), because both our lives and our liberty may depend on it.
by Chuck Baldwin
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