Tag: armed homeowner

  • Episode 177 with Andee Reardon O’Brion

    Nighttime works against us, and it can work for us too. It is harder for the bad guys to know where you are as you take a few steps to the side. It is harder for the bad guy to recognize that you’re reaching for your gun.

  • Episode 174 with Elizabeth Hautman

    Don’t assume that you have to put your life at risk to save other adults. They are responsible for their safety, and it was their choice to be unarmed victims.

  • Episode 172 with Amanda Suffecool

    These gun owners defended family and co-workers. If you plan to protect other people, then shouldn't they be part of the plan?

  • Episode 171 with Ben Branam

    I'm so glad this mom was armed. She saved her husband and her daughter.

  • Episode 170 with Tony Simon

    Include your other employees in your security plan. Is there always someone in the store who is armed? Have you and your armed employee trained or practiced together?

  • Episode 167 with Jeff Street

    We don’t know what an attacker will look like. It sounds like this defender was armed and carrying on his body. He protected his family. He stopped the thereat and then retreated.

  • Episode 164 with Amanda Suffecool

    This clerk had about 2 and a half seconds from the time the bad guy presenting a gun until the defense was over. I can’t say my own name that fast.

  • Episode 163 with Ben Branam

    As soon as you can, call the police. That 911 call makes a permanent record that you were there. That call means you were responding to an attack rather than brandishing your firearm in public.

  • Episode 159 with Elizabeth Hautman

    See problems before they happen. Avoid them if you can.. and prepare for them, both at home and at work. Once we've done that, then we can add a firearm as another layer of defense.

  • Episode 157 with Amanda Suffecool

    Think about it - she needed her defensive tools where she could use them immediately. She didn’t have time to wait for the police, or to get her gun from the trunk of the car, or from a purse or backpack in the back seat.