Defending your home

• Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-08-04 23:57

  Quote from Kaeporo;538636:

  Security Forces are my primary defense.
  
  If an attacker assaulted my suite I have a combat knife on my belt and an entrenching tool in the closet. I'm also trained to deliver appropriate levels of force through the Marine Corps line combatives course. If they have a weapon, lethal force is an option via blunt force trauma to the head.

  
  
  I have one of these, they're pretty useful, mine has a saw on it conveniently. :lol:
  

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• Kaeporo wrote on 2011-08-05 00:16

  Quote from Sleeperdial;538642:

  I have one of these, they're pretty useful, mine has a saw on it conveniently. :lol:
  

  [Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/USMC_ETool.jpg]

  
  
  They should have phased out the entrenching tools without blades by now. Useful for digging holes, chopping up roots and chopping off heads.
• Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-08-05 00:23

  Quote from Kaeporo;538661:

  They should have phased out the entrenching tools without blades by now. Useful for digging holes, chopping up roots and chopping off heads.

  
  
  The ultimate minecraft/zombie apocalypse weapon. :lol:
• Kenny? wrote on 2011-08-05 00:44

  Quote from Sleeperdial;538410:

  Sounds interesting, I'd imagine it'd be hard to block and parry with such thin weapons. (hard to call them blades)

  
  
  Well you're taught different methods and types of blocks. For example. Let's say someone stabs/lunges at you. You can use Parry 1 or 2 to knock their blade down, giving you a clear 'Right of way' to attack them. There's also different wrist flicks you can do to move their foil to a different area so it goes off course.
• Eyeoftiger wrote on 2011-08-05 00:48
  Ahem;
  

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• Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-08-05 00:51

  Quote from Eyeoftiger;538699:

  Ahem;
  

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  Good luck with that.
• Kyouria wrote on 2011-08-10 08:52
  In the future, I'd love to install a security system in my house~ but of course, technology like that could fail.
  
  Right now, I guess I can resort to self defense [태권도]. I also have pairs of nunchucks at home as well as a lot of sharp objects if I truly, truly have to defend myself. My sisters can also do TKD.
  
  TD;LR: Handy dandy phone to dial 911, TKD, random objects (preferably sharp). And later, security system hopefully.
• TA wrote on 2011-08-10 09:22
  A security system doesn't do much good except as a deterrent... It'll take the cops like 30 minutes to an hour or more to get to you most of the time.
• Shirayuki wrote on 2011-08-10 09:24
  OH YEAH, my parents always have some type of alcohol upstairs, and I always have a lighter on me, so human flamespitter is gonna be funtimes against someone who tries breaking in.
• Kyouria wrote on 2011-08-10 10:59

  Quote from TA;546715:

  A security system doesn't do much good except as a deterrent... It'll take the cops like 30 minutes to an hour or more to get to you most of the time.

  
  Really? That's bad.. in a way, that means the ambulance can take that long as well. :C
  
  Oh well. Self defense. I'm not a fan of having guns in a household, so~
• TA wrote on 2011-08-10 11:12

  Quote from Kyouria;546795:

  Really? That's bad.. in a way, that means the ambulance can take that long as well. :C
  
  Oh well. Self defense. I'm not a fan of having guns in a household, so~

  
  
  Yeah, and that's on top of the 5 minutes the security company will probably wait before even calling the police when you don't answer your phone (they call when the alarm goes off and ask for your private code)... So, don't expect the alarm itself to save you. You gotta save you.
• animeshadows wrote on 2011-08-10 23:15
  Hunting sniper rifle stored in my closet with ammunition. Sometimes coming from a hunting family has benefits. Scaring the crap out of intruders is one of them! —... or at least, that used to be the case. My dad took it out of my closet and left it in the cabin this year because the family went hunting without me. (Had state testing to do/speech team tournament)
  
  So I think the closest blunt weapon is my camera tripod or a thick wooden picture frame.
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-08-12 23:34

  Quote from Sleeperdial;538488:

  Okay I want you to throw a ball bearing at someone 30 yards away every minute and a half. See how many people you hit.

  
  
  Not saying if it's easy or hard. It's just way too disciplined for an act of violence.
  "I'll be shooting you now"
  "please do, i'll be reloading my gun and if you miss it will be my turn"
  "cheerio" /fires gun
• Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-08-13 00:34

  Quote from Osayidan;550022:

  Not saying if it's easy or hard. It's just way too disciplined for an act of violence.
  "I'll be shooting you now"
  "please do, i'll be reloading my gun and if you miss it will be my turn"
  "cheerio" /fires gun

  
  
  Its the most effective method of killing people with the period weapons, keep in mind 1:30 is a fast reload for a musket, and throwing them is probably more accurate.
• Joker wrote on 2011-08-13 00:46
  besides froma couple popsickle sticks... a fan... and a dvd....or a porcelein mr peanut jar.... I could always take another 8 steps or so and pick up my brothers sword...(no its not fake, its real cost him $300)