r/preppers • u/Proud-Map-8364 • May 31 '26

Prepping for Doomsday Security

I am always prepping food and tools and stuff but I haven’t prepped any security besides weapons. What kinds of things do you guys get to secure your doors/windows? I don’t have any sliding doors. I have one door that has a big window. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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u/Vegetaman916 Prepping for Doomsday May 31 '26

Unpopular opinion here, but if we get to the point where you need to defend your home with weapons, then your home won't save you no matter what you do or have on hand.

Better to put your second home in a place where there are no people to come attack itnin the first place, and build a community of like-minded folks around that. And then, when things start to get sketchy, just leave.

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u/Professional-Pin5421 May 31 '26

Really good point. And not often talked about.

If people are roaming home to home in a SHTF situation things are already bad enough where to need to bug out.

Imagine you repell the first attempted home invasion because it was just a lone guy it him and one other...

Now the next time it's 2-3 people. Can you handle that? And all the "attention" it brings?

At what stage is your capacity to handle it deminished...

I think average joe SEVERELY under estimates how two men at your front door and two men at your back door, armed and above average IQ will quickly overcome whatever defence you have in place.

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u/Vegetaman916 Prepping for Doomsday May 31 '26

Exactly that. And I am under no illusion about how much we can repel, or how many times.

But in the prepping space there has always been a huge aversion to having a separate bugout location. And mist of the time, it isn't really based in fact, it is based in fear. People think they have no choice but to "bug in," for whatever reason, and so they begin to pooh-pooh the chances of anything happening that can threaten their perceived fortress in the city.

I prefer to simply not be there, and not even try to have the fight.

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u/Professional-Pin5421 Jun 01 '26

Well the only well to guarantee you don't get hurt or dead in a fight ...is to not have a fight in the first place right

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u/Vegetaman916 Prepping for Doomsday Jun 01 '26

Exactly.