Staying safe in your own home should be a pretty straight forward process. Go inside, lock the doors, and be safe. You’re not overly worried about an invasion while you’re at home, right? And if you leave lights on while you’re not at home, then that should deter most criminals, right? Don’t bet on it! Even in good neighborhoods these day, homes are being invaded and violent crimes committed in areas where we never thought we had to worry about such things. The criminals are taking their show on the road and selecting neighborhoods where they know they can walk away with your valuables. Criminals have found more ways to break into homes, and more ways to bypass what we think are the normal protective measures, such as locked doors and windows. They are also no longer limiting their invasions to times when they think the home is empty.
Invading a home while the occupants are there has afforded criminals several opportunities for committing even more serious crimes such as kidnapping, rape and robbery. If they can abduct a person who can take them to an ATM to obtain cash, their reward from the crime becomes even greater. Likewise, if someone is home, then they can possibly force them to open safes, unlock secured storage, or gain access to other valuables. So as criminals get cleverer about their strategies, we also need to become craftier with our defenses.
Home invasions can happen at any time. The bad guys are even bold enough to try to enter your home during the day. And what happens if you are at home, with your children, and especially vulnerable to serious injury (or worse) during a home invasion? Then you need something that will make entering your home a much more daunting task, and buy YOU enough time to put your home defense plan into action.
This is
where a term
known as
“defense-in-depth”
comes in.
If you
create
multiple
layers of
protection
around you
and your
family to
defend
against
potential
invaders,
then the
chances of a
criminal
successfully
getting in
and doing
you harm is
greatly
reduced.
The idea
here is that
even if one
or more
layers of
your defense
are
defeated,
you will
still be
protected
because
there are
other layers
of
protection
in place to
stop the
attacker
from getting
in.
Multiple
layers of
protection
will also
allow you to
be more
flexible in
your
protections
while
allowing you
to still
live your
life.
This is
where Door
Armor by
Armor
Concepts
becomes part
of your
"defense-in-depth"
strategy!
How Does Door Armor Stack Up Against an Attack?
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and see how you can
protect your
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today!
About The Author: "The Gonz" is an NRA Certified Firearms Instructor (Pistol, PPiTH, RTBAV), US Concealed Carry Association Affiliate Instructor, and an NRA Certified Range Safety Officer. Additionally, he a trained and certified Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, with several years of training in the Incident Command System (ICS) procedures and practices.
