Originally Posted By: punisher
Originally Posted By: farrarfan1
You better be prepared to shoot with one hand. I guarantee you I am, especially in a low light situation.I'm going to have a flashlight if at all possible. If one of your arms is injured what do you plan on doing, giving up? Practise shooting and reloading one hand strong side and one hand weak side. Practise shooting with a flashlight. If you can see in the dark then you don't need a flashlight, but most humans don't have night vision and have to rely on a flashlight or room lights to see and identify the target. It may not be as simple as just picking up a weapon and shooting a bad guy standing still in a well lit room. It might involve moving from room to room, going up or down stairs, opening/closing doors, trying not to trip over objects on the floor,ducking behind a sofa for cover. There's hundreds of possibilities that might have to be dealt with.
There is a lot of thinking and planning that should go into it.
The only problem I have with your above scenario is that I won't be the one "clearing" a dwelling room by room. My motto is "retreat to fight another day". I have no intention, no matter how well armed I am, and I am well armed, of hunting through my house for a dangerous, possibly armed intruder. That is not my job.
My job is to get my family together, barricade my family in a designated safe room, call the cops, lock and load and wait for help. I can't imagine myself going through a dark house, with a flashlight and gun, hunting down an armed and dangerous perp. Like I said it isn't my job.
For real life scenarios, for the majority of people who don't get a lot of range time, a shotgun is about as good as it gets for a purely defensive weapon.
If your job is hunting someone down, then I tend to agree with your weapon/flashlight choices.
Like I said earlier a safe room is the best option but, depending on the size and layout of your house, and the location of your family members in different rooms on different floors, moving through the house may be necessary just to assemble everyone or get to a different level of the home where a family member is.It may not be your "job" but it is your duty to assemble them safely and this
might mean going from room to room on different floors to assemble them so all I'm suggesting is some planning and forethought on this process is a good thing. In my case, as I'm sure it is with others, I have kids and their friends on two different floors almost all of the time. My wife spends a lot of time downstairs as well.Yes, I'm a police officer and I'm trained and paid to respond to these things but if someone tries to force their way into my house through the downstairs entrance and I'm upstairs then I'm dad/husband/homeowner and I'm going to the threat. With a Glock 9 MM by the way.