[samstave]

Heh, I am constantly fretting over the pacticality of the location and contents of my Go Gear...

I am checking and practicing grabbing [defensive item] often, worried that I am testing it wrong, i.e. that if it happens where I need that [defensive item] that I have placed it in a non-practical place.

I'd love to have a security consultant review my go plans and assist.

My moms house was broken into last night, and she awoke to someone stealing her laptop. She was just diagnosed with cancer and has a trach in right now - so it was super scary for her - because even in that instance, she cant even yell for help. The ADP alarm system failed her and my brother was MIA.

PROTIP: I go to the DAISO Japan store and buy little cargo zipper bags to organize all my tech work gear. Console cables, dsiplay adapters, USB charges etc in one - zip ties velcro, sticky-velcro etc in another. laptop chargers in others...

The DAISO store in SF Japan town is amazing for just this sort of thing.

[JshWright]

If [defensive item] is a CCW, you might want to try to cut back on reaching for it. One of the biggest tells for someone carrying concealed is how they constantly feel for their weapon...

[samstave]

Well, these items are placed in various locations - not on my person, so its not a projection/telegraphing situation like that.

I have kids - so I need to have things protected in multiple ways.

Not like the days of being single and you can just have [dangerous item] in the bedside table.

[rdl]

I use a gunvault by the bed (I don't have kids in the house, but would feel bad about leaving a loaded handgun out anyway, just in case someone broke in when unattended, shot himself by accident, and I got sued, among other risks like a houseguest or maid or repairman) http://www.amazon.com/Gunvault-GV2000S-Multi-Vault-Standard/...

I'm not sure if I'd trust it to resist serious attack, but chording it a few times gives a reasonably large keyspace, opens quickly, and presents the weapon (loaded and chambered, no external manual safety on the glock 19) in a consistent position for drawing, so it's faster than just leaving it loose in a drawer.

In my trailer or tent in Iraq/Afghanistan, I just put a spare holster between the mattress and bedframe and slept with it there, which worked well, but was a higher risk environment and zero legal risk.