Clint Smith on not clearing your house

[looney2ns]

[video=youtube;nu61yMsvDH4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu61yMsvDH4[/video]

 

[Drail]

Listen to Clint boys and girls. I really loved the part about "when he kicks in your bedroom door - he'll find out you have a gun.."

 

[Cameramonkey]

ABSOLUTELY!

The only reason I leave my bedroom/secure space is to get to my family. (or possibly to get to the phone if it isnt in the room with me to call for professional help)

I have no business clearing my house when there are better equipped and trained professionals to do the job. Sure they are up to 30 mins away. I can hold down the fort for that long behind a locked door.

 

[Gluemanz28]

I call BS

Run through your house yelling citizens arrest while waving your fourtay with mounted light.

Dat wuts bes fer me ans mines.

 

[Birds Away]

I call BS

Run through your house yelling citizens arrest while waving your fourtay with mounted light.

Dat wuts bes fer me ans mines.

Don't forget your concealed carry badge. That's the key!

 

[pack-indy]

But I bought a pistol bayonet specifically for CQB. Now what in the hell am I going to use it for?

 

[jsharmon7]

This is why I have Claymores placed around my house. Why waste precious beauty sleep by clearing rooms just because some jerk broke in the house?

But yeah, staying put is sound advice.

 

[roscott]

I disagree in part. Yes, if you hear glass breaking and a half dozen voices, definitely stay put and wait for the PD. However, most of the time I clear my house, it's because I heard a bump in the night, or I return home and a light is on and I can't remember if I left it on or not.

If I called the police every time I heard a noise, I would quickly become known as the village paranoid. If it's definitely a break-in, wait in place. But there are plenty of times clearing your house is a good idea.

 

[churchmouse]

This is why I have Claymores placed around my house. Why waste precious beauty sleep by clearing rooms just because some jerk broke in the house?

But yeah, staying put is sound advice.

I was ducking down when I drove by your place the other day....the claymores scare me.....

 

[churchmouse]

I disagree in part. Yes, if you hear glass breaking and a half dozen voices, definitely stay put and wait for the PD. However, most of the time I clear my house, it's because I heard a bump in the night, or I return home and a light is on and I can't remember if I left it on or not.

If I called the police every time I heard a noise, I would quickly become known as the village paranoid. If it's definitely a break-in, wait in place. But there are plenty of times clearing your house is a good idea.

We have a system depending on the situation.
Living in the city requires a system. Put one together and adhere to it.

Yes, I investigate the bumps in the night.

 

[ChalupaCabras]

I agree with the general message.

I'm not a delta swat operator, but I have been trained by the state of IN as well as the Army on the basics of room clearing and building assault, etc.

I know enough to know clearing a structure alone is stupid. You need at the least a 2 man team who are both trained and have practiced together before... even then 3 or 4 man team would be better.

Personally, I'm in an odd position with my home. Its an old structure with multiple additions over the years from multiple owners. As a result, the floor plan is funky. After mapping out my home, I feel there is really only one viable vector to be firing a weapon (and possibly receiving fire) that clears the living and sleeping areas, and offers reasonable assurance to my neighbors...

This lane is most definitely not inside my bedroom. It requires me to move 10 or 15 feet from my bedside , through a small adjoining guest room, to a concealed fighting position in the den, which affords me a view of most of the house, and all of the doors into the sleeping areas.

The only practical and responsible course of action for me is to move to a stronger position

 

[daddyusmaximus]

That video has good advice. Fighting from room to room eats troops. However, I'm stuck having to if something happens in the next year before my youngest goes off to college, her bedroom is upstairs.

 

[Woobie]

I have kids downstairs that I have to get to. We are in the process of moving them upstairs, but until then, I have to get them out of whatever harm they might face.

Edit: Thst probably sounded like I was disagreeing with him. He's dead on, it's just that I fall into that second category he referenced.

 

[rhino]

Clint Smith is smart, wise, skilled, and experienced. He gives good advice and he's spot-on about this issue.

I hope to train with him some day soon.

 

[VUPDblue]

I'd clear my own house, but then I have a live-in house clearing partner with the skills to do it safely and effectively.

 

[Bennettjh]

I call BS

Run through your house yelling citizens arrest while waving your fourtay with mounted light.

Dat wuts bes fer me ans mines.

I didn't know there was any other way.

 

[TheDude]

Oh, just rack that shotgun and theyll run for their lives. Insert purple

 

[VUPDblue]

Oh, just rack that shotgun and theyll run for their lives. Insert purple

why purple?

 

[Fordtough25]

why purple?

I thought that only worked in the movies?

 

[VUPDblue]

I thought that only worked in the movies?

where else are we to learn tactics?!