Hi I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog author of Navy SEAL shooting and one of
the top 20 most frequently asked questions I get is how should I practice
protecting my home now start your timer as I share with you five ways you should
be practicing to protect your home in today's five and under 5 FAQ
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so a lot of people out there might be thinking you know what I bought a
firearm I'm safe I can protect my home I just put that thing under my pillow at
night and the boogeyman is not gonna be able to come get me well that is not the
case there's a lot of things that you can do to actually help protect your
home and your family and they don't even involve a firearm so I'm going to give
you five things to think about right now so number one is to come up with a plan
what are you actually gonna do if somebody comes into your home what is
your family going to do and you need to come up with a plan not just for one
scenario but think of as many scenarios as possible what if somebody comes into
your home and you're in bed well that's one scenario now what if somebody comes
into your home and you're downstairs watching TV what if you're in the
backyard what if you're in the bathroom and it's gonna completely change the
plan of what you need to do in that scenario so the first thing is to come
up with a plan of what you're gonna do in different scenarios
number two is people you need to get your family involved with your plan if
you have a plan but nobody else knows it well that's not a very good plan
especially if you want to keep your family safe
now even if you don't have family or anybody else in your home think about
your neighbors come up with a plan and let them know what you would do or how
they might be able to help in a scenario where somebody breaks into your house
the better team you can build the better you're going to be able to protect your
home all right number three on the list is to prepare so you want to do
walkthroughs and practice with your family and I do this with my kids since
they were little we do fire drills where we would practice literally them laying
in bed and me yelling fire and they would have to go the route that they
would go if there was a fire in the house and we'd practice this and by
simply walking through you're not gonna have that deer in the headlights where
you just freeze and don't know what to do because you've already done it you've
done it with your family you've prepared you've done walkthrough so make sure you
prepare to protect your home all right number four on the list is prevent
you want to make your home a hard-target making your home a hard-target is really
not that hard I just look out at my neighbor's home and I'll see a neighbor
that doesn't have any lights on at night now if I'm a bad guy and I'm gonna break
into somebody's house I'm gonna look at two homes one has the lights on one has
the lights off well guess which house aren't going to
the one with the lights off because it's more likely that nobody is home there so
by simply turning on your lights that's gonna make people not want to break into
your house so think about ways that you can prevent making your home a target
all right number five is to practice awareness so awareness is a skill that
you can build and you can call it situational awareness you can even call
it peripheral vision but today so much we are all on our mobile devices and
watching TVs and laptops and computers and our awareness is slowly slowly maybe
not so slowly but it's closing off and we're not aware of what's going on
around us so you need to practice awareness you know at night if you hear
something try to think about what it is and as you practice awareness your whole
world will start to open up and you'll be able to see and be aware of a lot
more and you'll be able to better protect your home alright that is it for
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