How to Defend Your Home Without a Gun The Blueprint For Protecting Your Family and Securing Your Home Against Intruders

by Kirk, Ernie

• ISBN13: 9781624142314
• ISBN10: 1624142311
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-03-29
• Publisher: Page Street Publishing

Summary

How to Defend Your Home Without a Gun is a practical situational guide for homeowners that do not own a gun. If someone were to break into your home tonight, do you know what to do to keep yourself and your family safe? Should you try to escape? Or is it better to barricade yourself in a room? What should you do if the intruder gets into your room? With this book, renowned and experienced self-defense instructor Ernie Kirk answers those questions so that if you were to face this situation today, you'll be ready. Learn the best escape routes and where you should go. If you can't get out, learn what to use to barricade a door and how to get help once you're barricaded in. If you're face-to-face with the intruder, learn how to fight with improvised weapons and foolproof self-defense techniques, incorporating the hand to hand techniques of Krav Maga, used by many military organizations.

The book also deals with preparing your home and property with layers of security to deter an intruder before they even get inside. Case studies are used throughout the book to demonstrate the most common property crimes, how the intruder broke in and what the victims could have done differently. You'll learn how to train yourself and your family so that in any situation your family will know the best response to stay safe.

Author Biography

Ernie Kirk is the president of Krav Maga Universal, a self-defense training organization. He is also the lead instructor of combatives and self-protection for the U.S.A.F. Air Advisor Academy. He has over 30 years of martial arts training experience. He is a Certified Contact Weapon Defense and Control Instructor and has been teaching self-defense for over 20 years. Ernie has been featured on the Discovery Channel and the New York Times. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

Co-author Dion D. serves as a combat skills chief instructor for the United States Department of Defense. Dion has deployed globally as a personal security specialist, advisor and instructor, including more than 24 deployments as a contracted security professional. Dion is a Krav Maga black belt and practitioner of multiple martial systems.