Onward Allusion
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There are many things in life that are worst than death.
JohnKSa said:In other words, if you're going to get help in a home invasion, it's probably going to have to come from you or from another victim. You can't count on your neighbors hearing something and reporting it.
I don't remember the exact statistics regarding the drop in survival rate when someone is forced to change locations - even rooms - during a violent event, but it was big enough to make me take note that such demands by an assailant are a reason to look urgently for an opportunity to fight.
Personally, the only time my gun is not on my person is if I'm in bed, or the shower. Even then it's at arms reach.
What would you do with the numbers?Can anybody give me some stats at which kidnappings and home invasions occur? And then out of the home invasions how many were because the person had a link to criminal activity. Finally the kidnapings, how many of those are motivated by an acquaintance (read family member) that thinks they are doing it for the betterment of the child vs. random unknown victim/suspect relation.
It is possible to install a cell phone repeater which will pick up cell phone signals from inside the room and rebroadcast them from an antenna outside the room.A true "safe room" is going to have enough metal in the walls and ceiling (and possibly the floor) to, in effect, be a "Faraday Cage" and cell phone reception will be limited to non-existent.
And just what, pray tell, does that have to do with the question at hand?If you read the 2nd paragraph of my post, and read between the lines you would understand my point is home invasions and kidnappings are not so random.
None of the kidnappings that have occurred around here in recent years have involved victims with "some criminal link". Shootings, yes; kidnappings, no.I have a very good friend that in his 21 plus and counting of being an officer in a very large city and spending approximately 10 years with their gang unit had never been to a home invasion that the victim was innocent, they were all motivated by some criminal link.
I don't "worry about it" either, but but it has happened with sufficient frequency around here for the police to advise people about how to avoid it.The stats for kidnappings once you pull out the ones that are conducted by a known family member and the ones that are done by one human smuggling group taking the load from another group, the number of true kidnappings are so low I don't worry about it.
Ya I very much doubt that.I have a very good friend that in his 21 plus and counting of being an officer in a very large city and spending approximately 10 years with their gang unit had never been to a home invasion that the victim was innocent, they were all motivated by some criminal link.
That's the most common fantasy. And it does happen.I was thinking that if there were a home invasion, it would be in the dead of night while your piece was in a stand next to you.
By far the most common objective in the crimes has been a small item: an ATM card. That's whetter the vicim has been taken from the home or with the car.
Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, was strangled. Her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, were tied to their beds and died of smoke inhalation. Hawke-Petit and Michaela also were sexually assaulted. Hawke-Petit's husband and the girls' father, Dr. William Petit Jr., was beaten but survived.
The killers, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, are serving life in prison. They originally were sentenced to death, but Connecticut abolished capital punishment in 2012.
Komisarjevsky picked Hawke-Petit and Michaela as targets when he saw them at a grocery store. He followed them to their home, left and later returned with Hayes.
That's the most common fantasy. And it does happen. But what do you do if you have not yet retired to bed?