🚀 go-pugleaf

Actually, it's good tactics to make them come to you.  A defender
can hold a static position against a force several times larger
than his/her own.  THEY have to come to you and your lines of
fire are already establishes and observed for just such a situation.
THEY on the other hand are entering an unknown area against a
defender of unknown position, strength and numbers.

Define a "safe room" in your house and have everyone trained to
go to there for a fall back position.  Have your cell phone in
there and call 911.  In the mean time you have yourself and
your family baricaded in a room that they have to expose them-
selves to if they want to attack.  You are armed and ready
for them and don't have to worry about other family members
being in the line of fire in another room in the event of a
miss and wall penetration.

Simple. Effective. Infinately defensible in a court room.


Michael wrote:
> 
> With all the different responses to home invasion in this thread, maybe the
> best thing to do when a burgler forces his way into my home is to plead with
> him not to shoot me and my family with his big gun, hey, maybe he will go
> away if I give him my wallet while I'm at it, and tell him where the hidden
> safe is as well before I scuttle away, if I can, that is. I know, I'll just
> have fresh cookies ready every night on a plate in the kitchen in case poor
> Mr Burgler is hungry on the job, it will reinforce his behavior, and he may
> be nice to me and let me live:) I could just as well leave my Winchester
> Defender 12ga shotgun in the gun safe with its trigger lock as it may cause
> me more trouble than it's worth after the court, lawyers and media start
> their feeding frenzy after the fact. Politically correct and dead?
> Mike
> 
> > >The law is not written as a license to kill all treaspassers, but as a
> > >way to try and prevent people who defend themselves in their own homes
> > >from being victimized twice -- once by the criminal, and again by the
> > >government.

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