Posted by
Sharkbite:
The point is that you do not always have the ABILITY to hunker down and wait for a LE response.
It is most certainly true that one may not always have the ability to hunker down. There is no question about that. In my house, I may have to draw and shoot from wherever I happen to be at the time.
But the idea is not to wait for LE. In most cases they will not arrive in time. But the idea is to
let the threat come to the defender.
Even (especially) if i can identify the sound as an intruder. I dont have the luxury of waiting on local PD.
I don't think that anyone, anywhere, should ever assume that they can wait for the police to arrive.
The thing to do is to get yourself and your family to a position of safety, call the police, and
prepare to open fire from a position of safety if necessary.
For a number of years, FoF exercises relative to this question were conducted at the National Tactical Invitational. Defenders who were thoroughly familiar with the layouts of the shoot houses went out in search of intruders who were not. In other exercises, the defenders let the intruders come to them.
As I recall, over a several year period, only one, or maybe two, of the "hunter" defenders prevailed.
Should one not want to accept those results (though they are accepted by most professionals and trainers), one might want to set up some exercises using Airsoft equipment. Vary the participants, and provide an incentive for success.
My daughter is in peril and im going to grab my HD gun and go.
Good. You have no choice, unless she happens to be capable of defending herself from where she is. Either way, you should have a plan.
..you are quick to point out the need for people to get more training, without ANY IDEA of that persons background and current level of training
An implication that one would go forth in search of an intruder (and I may have misinterpreted that) gives an idea of a person's level of training. A statement that one would would intend to shoot anyone who had
already committed a forcible felony against one's family would nail it.
Id advise you to get out of the books so much and look at the real world.
I have been involved in several defensive gun use incidents over the years. I now know that I could have handled each of them better than I did.
I have taken a gun and gone looking for possible intruders in the house. I now know that I shouldn't have.
Get real. No man worth his salt is going to just hunker down when his family is in danger
That applies to women, too.
We have discussed this ad nauseam. The first thing to do is attend to the safety of the family. The second is to defend,
from a defensible position.
