Review: Interesting, common sense ideas, but doesn't analyze any weapons other than firearms
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2013
I was a little afraid to read this book, expecting it to be full of crazy. A fair amount of people would still call it crazy, but I thought it was pretty well done. My major beef is the assumption that only firearms are "weapons." I can understand that if you want to stop an intruder at your perimeter, shooting a gun is really useful. However, that doesn't mean you can't find comfort from weapons such as crowbars, baseball bats, tasers, whatever. He repeats several times that your life expectancy lowers significantly once an intruder enters your home. I think that's a half-truth. I believe that's only true if the intruder knows you're in that house and trying to keep him out. If he just successfully makes it through your perimeters, that doesn't mean he realizes those were perimeters or that you're inside waiting for him.All that said, I thought the advice was common sense, but not obvious. The idea of funneling was very clever and makes so much sense.However, given his statements about keeping your prepping to yourself so that friends don't turn on you during a disaster, it seems like a bad idea to have them practice your home security to help you find the flaws.