Category: Security and Being A Hard Target
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Securing Your Guns: New Use for NanoVault
One of my great fears is that one of my firearms will get stolen and subsequently used in a crime. I would feel terrible if I found out that a rifle or pistol that I failed to secure from unauthorized access was used to kill an innocent person. As a result, I take every precaution to keep…
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Making ‘I Spy’ A Useful Awareness Game For Your Child
As my son gets older and is interacting more with the world around him, I have been trying to figure out ways to make ‘situational awareness’ a part of his life from an early age. Growing up, my dad didn’t have any particular method to make me pay attention to the details of the world around me…
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“Crisis Rehearsal” from Rebecca Bahret of SheKnows.com
I wanted to post this article from Rebecca Bahret of SheKnows.com. It’s about the mental rehearsal (brainstorming) of emergency situations so that in the event of an actual emergency there is less time spent thinking and more spent doing. “Every time I drive over a bridge with my children in the car, I envision us getting…
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Hardening the Home, Part 2: Up-Armor Your Security
In the second installment of this series, we will discuss the how of increasing your home security. I’ll be talking about how to use the diagram that you made in the first article. We will talk about how to negate the weak points of your house’s layout, and light up the dark spots. We will list some inexpensive physical…