Oct. 14, 2025

What if safety is a plan, not a weapon?

We break down a practical path to security without firearms by building layers: passive defenses that deter and delay, and active defenses that you can execute under pressure. We share mindset, low-cost tools, placement tips, and legal awareness so you can act with clarity.

00:00 - Framing Security Without Guns

00:34 - Passive Defenses Explained

02:04 - Designing a Harder Target at Home

03:15 - Active Defenses and Human Boundaries

05:12 - Why Both Layers Matter

06:39 - Low-Cost Tools and Placement

07:39 - Know the Laws, Choose Your Safety

08:38 - Parting Mindset and Sign-Off

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Peace, peace, my good people.

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Welcome to another episode of Grounded and Ready for Whatever.

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And I'm Shay.

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This episode, we are going to talk about security but without guns.

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I'm sorry.

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I would love, absolutely love to do an episode about that.

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But unfortunately, the way that um my free speech is set up at the current moment, I can only say so much.

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Or actually, I can't say anything about that.

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But what I can do is talk about security without guns, such as strategy, more specifically, for your home defense and your self-defense.

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Um, firstly, we're gonna talk about uh the difference between passive and active defenses, defenses, and what it means.

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You may know, you may not know, but if you don't know, I'm gonna tell you.

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So passive defenses are passive but preventative measures that don't really require you to do anything in the moment.

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They're about making your home or your position, your person harder to attack, break into, or even notice.

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So, specifically speaking, for your home, um, examples of passive defenses are strong locks and reinforced doors, uh, fences and gates and barriers on the outside, motion-activated lighting, security cameras, especially if they are visible.

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Uh those big ass thorny bushes under windows, those are natural deterrents because nobody's gonna try to climb over that to get straight to you through your windows, window bars or shatter-resistant film on said windows, um, alarm systems, camouflage or concealments for your preps.

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They look like preps, so it's kind of a passive but in your face type of thing.

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Um, safe rooms and or hidden storage, all of those are passive.

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They're harder for to attack, meaning, you know, the shatterproof windows, um, the doors, the stronger locks, harder to break into, or notice the safe rooms, uh, the hidden storages, you know, all that is classified as passive defenses.

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The goal is to make your space a space a less appealing or a harder target.

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Ideally, deter threats before they even try anything.

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If they if it looks difficult, they're not fucking with it.

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So you want to make that the goal when it comes to passive defenses.

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Now, active defenses, these actions require direct action, often during a threat.

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Uh, active defenses are what you do, what you do in response to a thing.

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So passive is kind of before, but active it's when shit's going off.

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Examples are you're confronting an intruder, either verbally or physically, using the firearms or other weapons, triggering manual arms or stress signals.

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Uh, if you live in a community that has patrols or somebody on guard, those are active defensives, defensive maneuvers or escape tactics if you're actually actively engaged with someone, uh tactical use of dogs or train animals, engaging intruders via monitor security system.

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So you might not be up in their face, but you can see them on your security cams.

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And the goal for active defensive is to neutralize, repel, or escape an immediate threat.

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We don't.

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I'm gonna say that in certain situations, the goal should not be end of life for anyone.

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I'm gonna say that because as a human being, I don't think other humans' goal should be to kill other humans.

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I don't think that.

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But in a situation where it's my life or your life is always gonna be my life, and your life is always gonna go, and I will never think differently about that.

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You come into my space and you want to do me or my family any type of harm, I'm automatically gonna choose your life.

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Your your life ain't worth mine or my people's.

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So, and I'm okay with that.

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If you're not okay with that, it's okay, but you have to be okay with those end results for yourself.

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Anywho, both of these types of defensive matter, passive defenses defenses give you time, reduces risk, and often prevent conflict altogether.

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If, like I said previously, if an intruder sees your house isn't an easy mark, they're just gonna go walking by.

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Most times, if people have dogs, intruders don't necessarily go over there because if they hear a dog, they don't want to go through the mental gymnastics to figure out what kind of dog is it.

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Is it friendly?

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Is it a big dog?

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Is it a little dog?

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Do they attack?

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Do not they don't not trying to do that.

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It's too much for them.

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So they're gonna move on to the guy who doesn't have a dog.

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Not saying everybody can get a dog, just pointing out the positives with having one for this particular reason.

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And active defensive matter because they kick in when something gets past the passive layer.

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If an intruder gets past the passive layer, like let's say the the bushes didn't deter them and the window bars, none of that stuff deterred them.

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There's like, I'm coming in here, then that active defensive kissing kicks into your mind, like, oh, you really want to be here.

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You really trying to come after me.

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And so whatever in your mind or whatever you have already previously set up for the active defenses, that's when those kick in.

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And that's why it matters to have a plan for both, because both are important.

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Um, you should always have a well-rounded security plan, which includes both passive and uh active defensive.

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You want to avoid fights whenever possible, but also be ready to act if somebody comes to your door popping shit.

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And you want to make sure that if that's the case, you're ready to take those actions if if necessary.

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Now, going back to um the things to defend yourself without a gun.

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There are a lot of low-cost things you can do to get um to defend yourself if you can.

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You can get the bats, you can get the the tennis rackets, the golf clubs.

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Some people just use uh big lead pipes.

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Whatever works for you, works for you.

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Some people have these things strategically paced throughout their home, just in case.

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If you're on a one-floor home, if one floor home, some people have them in every corner of their home, other people have them in secret compartments within drawers, in cabinets, in containers, whatever.

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Whatever works for you, works for you.

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But if you have these low-cost tools to defend yourself, you can you can avoid being surprised, and you can have something that you can use to defend yourself, active defensive.

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Also, be aware of the um the laws in your area.

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If you want to use these defenses, either personally, like let's say I know some people who carry bats in their car, I know some people who keep um golf clubs on their person at all times.

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Well, not on their person, but you know, some of these people carry these in some places.

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It's illegal to carry uh weapons of violence, or uh I don't know what the terminology is for, but if you carry a weapon, it's not a good thing.

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But ultimately, your safety should be important, and whether you have a bat or you have a little pocket knife, or you have uh one of those sound frequency things, or you have a gun.

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Whatever you have for your safety is for your safety, but you should always have it.

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Um, be ready to use it whenever.

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And that's all I have for this.

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Uh I hope each and every one of you have a great rest of your day, rest of your evening, and I hope each and every one of you stays ready out there for whatever.

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Peace.