Choosing The Best Home Defense Weapon (Besides Guns)

What about weapons in the car? https://youtu.be/O4oTLeHnPfk

I'm Canadian so my home defense is hockey stick based. Unfortunately, the home invader would also have a hockey stick.

Storing a weapon by the front door is basically giving the intruder an ammo drop for a raid mission.

When I was a teenager and working security jobs we weren't allowed any "weapons" but every company gave us foot long maglite metal flashlights that held 4 C batteries and could easily knock someone out. Best thing is at night you could also blind them.

I once found myself in a friend's appartment as 3 guys started breaking down the door. There were 4 of us in the couch at the time, we had all done some martial arts and in the room with us were a sword, an executioner's axe from the 1600's with actual souls in it, a baseball bat and a hammer. We were loaded! And what happened when the door started braking down is exactly what mike said would happen. Everybodys eyes got really big really fast and everyone was just staring for a considerable amount of time before we sprang into action and grabbed the weapons. However, when we realized that these guys had brought guns it took only about a microsecond for me to teleport to the balcony and jump. Everyone else landed injured but man i landed running, and i kept running for a considerable amount of time!

If you don't have a gun use what people used before guns. Imagine kicking in a door and seeing a guy holding a long sword.... I bet you back up and close the door

Horse head mask, Viagra, no pants, machete, start crying and screaming its dinner time! They die from shock

Here in Spain plenty of people have a half sized baseball bat. I've seen them in bars, offices, and people's homes. It seems like a good defence tool because its small enough to use, but also still sturdy enough to deal damage

I keep a small camping shovel by my bed, tbh the shovel is a mean tool and give you a lot of options

This video is the entire conversation I have with myself as I'm going to sleep

When your wife/girlfriend asks you what your thinking about.

I am someone who cannot legally own a firearm . My 4foot oak closet rod, i keep by my door is my weapon of choice, and it has served me well. I spent 3 years of my life studying traditional Wah Lum Kungfu, including specifically staff and spear drills, so this little piece of closet rod is the weapon I am most proficient in. I have already used it during a home invasion, to great effect. I am very very aware things could have gone poorly for me ,but as far as my options go, this is my best one.

"How sharp are your kitchen knives?" Me- 😃

swinging an axe screaming " I have got Aids and covid" should stun any intruder.

The best melee weapon for home-defence in my opinion is a spear. In my country guns are very hard to get and it is illegal to get a license for self-defence so alot of people rely on melee weapons. People make their own spears with a broom handle, kitchen knife and duct tape then place it beside them when they sleep. The spear is a perfect and unusual home defence weapon in my opinion because it is easy to thrust a spear in a hallway but it is difficult to swing a machete or a bat. It creates great distance which would he hard to close and it has been proven as one of the most effective weapons through history.

Late on this but I love your point about the kitchen knife. Knives are scary, messy, personal, etc. There’s no scenario where my mom has an intruder in her home and goes “okay I’ll go to kitchen, grab a giant knife, and now I’m gonna stab a violent crazy guy up close an personal” and that ends up well for her.

1:34 Bro... I'm in the bath with a sponge. What am I supposed to do?

One tip to add: Leaving a weapon sitting by the door is the same thing as offering it to an intruder. He's now an armed intruder.

Your number one home defense object, even before a gun; a barky dog that gives you early warning. Those few seconds allowing you to react make all the difference.

The Debra in me feels called out