How do you stage your HD shotgun?

[Guest smileyguy]

This paragraph just disproved everything you've said. I'm just simply not going to bet my life or the life of my family on the assumption that the BG will turn tail and run just because I've notified him that I have a gun. Even Mas acknowledges that possibility in the statement you provided.

To each his own, I just think that your strategy could get you seriously injured or killed.

Doesn't disprove anything. I basically said the same thing in an earlier post. I believe in the the majority of situations the intruder(s) will leave if upon the realization that you are armed. They will leave ASAP, with no shots fired. By not alerting as you say, the probability of shots being fire in your direction is GREATLY increased, whether purposefully or even accidentally, as I previously stated.

In the RARE case of deranged/drugged invaders we are basically in the same boat. Barricaded in a room with one point of entry, ready to fire on that position.

My method avoids conflict in ALMOST ALL cases. Yours does not. I'm not willing to gamble my life on that.

In the RARE case that they do not leave, your method and my method leave us both with a very hard to defeat defensive position, but either one of us could still be shot at and possibly hit in this situation. The probabilities are basically the same here.

"I just think that your strategy could get you seriously injured or killed" in the VAST MAJORITY of home invasions, and I think your strategy leaves you no better off than me in the RARE kind of home invasion.

[Guest c.a.s.]

Exactly Will. My goal isn't winning, it's surviving. Probably everyone here knows the #1 rule of a gun fight is to have a gun. How many know the #1 rule of surviving a gun fight? Don't get into a gun fight. Training and tactics are impportant but as a last resort. Cops, who have better training than the average gun owner and who often have body armor, die in armed confrontations, but we here on TN Gun Owners are 10 feet tall and bullet proof because we are armed.

I very seriously doubt that.

[daddyo]

I very seriously doubt that.

I tend to agree with the statement that LEOs are better trained than the average gun owner, but not as well as the average citizen with a HCP.