INTERIOR SECURITY - THE FINAL STAND

            This is the final ring of security; your last ditch effort at protecting your life and your family. It comes into play, when the other two rings of security were breached, so it must be the hardest target. 

            Have an emergency action plan. My plan “A” is retreat to the safe room “IF” possible. Plan “B” is take whatever action is needed to protect my family and myself, this include all physical and armed countermeasures. This plan must be shared with everyone living in the house. If other family members have a role in the plan, they should clearly understand their role. If their role is involved in the physical and/or armed countermeasures, they should receive the proper training and remedial training. 

            Firearm(s) are a must. If the first two rings of security failed to deter or stop a criminal or an attacker, they’ve demonstrated their determination to gain access to your property or more seriously to you or your family. This type of determination may require the ultimate solution by firearm. 

            However, this ultimate solution requires what we call, “The three A’s of firearms survival”: 

• Access – to a firearm
• Ability – to use a firearm
• Attitude – to use a firearm 

            Any firearm must be readily accessible, whether it is a handgun, rifle or shotgun. This means accessibility from any location in the house within seconds. If your firearm is locked up in your gun safe in the basement, and your seated in your recliner in the living, when the break in occurs, your failure to plan has forced you into an unarmed defensive situation with one or more possibly armed attackers.