suntzu wrote:
Fifth you spoke of a "safe room" in order to hole up...bullets penetrate walls--it's a fact, and if you intend to have a room where you can hole up during a home invasion or other disturbance--it would be smart to have a room with no exterior windows, one entry/exit in order to control the point of entry, and reinforce your walls and your door so as to make entry from the outside more difficult, but exit from the inside easy.
In the military, the tactics as described would be known as 'internal security.' Did anyone consider the military tactic of establishing an
exterior perimiter?
We recently had some very high winds and heavy rain come through, which loosened-up siding, tree branches, raised streams to flooding, etc. When the winds and rain died down, I did an internal search of my house for leaking basement walls, etc. Then Idid aperimiter search of my property, first close to the house, then in larger circles around the property, finally to the edge of my land, with an eye beyond the perimiter. (My house is onhalf a dozen acres)
From the furthest distance, I looked back at the house and thought "If this were not a weather emergency but a confrontational emergency, unless the BGs were literally within my home, I would rather meet the adversary as far from the building as possible, such as out here."
Would it not be preferrable to take the fight outside if possible? I realize scenarios would change depending on setting (urban, suburban, rural, wilderness)
To stay on topic, as my screen name would indicate, Iwas armed with a revolver. Yet my maglite and waterproof bootswere of considerably more utility.
