Byrna Pro Tips: Defend Your Home Against Intruder Series // Critical Response Tactics – Responding to the Threat
Critical Response Tactics – Responding to the threat
- Positioning lethal weapons
- Keeping them locked and secured
- Keeping them out of reach of your bed: brain fog
- Positioning less-lethal weapons
- Can be at the ready
- Having flashlights available
- Can be used to distract
- Announcing your presence and the fact your armed
- May be a valid technique in some cases
- Calling 911 at the first safe time to do so
- Room clearing tactics
- Using angles / basic threshold evaluation
- Using reflective surfaces to see around corners / rooms
- Keeping your distance from corners
- Controlling their access routes to you
- How to use less-lethal in an indirect manner before you see the suspect
- The goal is not to neutralize the assailant, its to protect yourself, your family, and to facilitate escape