Okay, I'll try this from a different angle and see if I can make my point.
Scenario...
1) Bad guy busts into workinwifdakids' house.
2) workinwifdakids has no choice but to shoot him in defense of his house and family (no problem with that on my part BTW).
3) Bad guy survives and the whole thing later winds up in court.
4) Bad guy claims he tried to surrender and give up to wait for the police and that workinwifdakids shot him anyway.
5) Now we have a potential "heresay" situation with a jury trying to decide what happened. Yes workinwifdakids was justified in defending his home but is the jury going to think he shot in cold blood after the badguy allegedly "gave up"?
6) The opposing counsel pulls up the following exceript and hands it to the court...
I've always said the same thing. The drill is, I hand my wife the phone and tell her, "DIAL 911 and do NOT hang up!"
I grab the Remington 870 full of 3" 00-buckshot.
I start screaming, "STOP! PLEASE STOP!" all of which is being recorded.
Then I start in with, "PLEASE, STOP! I HAVE A GUN!"
Then I move into, "I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU, BUT I WILL IF YOU MAKE ME! PLEASE, PLEASE..."
At about that point, the dispatchor will hear "KA-FRICKIN-BOOOOOM," and there will be a nice recording for posterity.
I've worked local law enforcement, then for USDOJ, been witness in a few cases of various sorts and worked with a LOT of lawers both defending and prosecuting. Please just believe me that any good lawyers could make this look REALLY BAD to a jury of your peers.
My one and only point. Don't make extra work for your defense lawyer.
If you are going to post self defense plans you should ALWAYS play it "close to the vest", be careful about what you post and for the love of GOD and your family make sure you NEVER sound like there would only be one outcome (shooting) to your plan.
There's a huge difference between writing the above, and writing something to the effect of
"at about that point I've been backed into a corner with no other options left and I'm afraid the dispatcher would then be recording me defending myself".
Yeah I know it sounds like lawyer weaseling but if (God forbid) one of us ever wound up in such a situation we are going to need every bit of good background character witness we can muster to avoid further trouble because people like me would say "well, if you do a home invasion then you get what you deserve", but there are also an awful lot of Hollywood programmed people out there who would say "but he surrendered, you should have just waited for the police". Mind boggling I know, but true.