Ben86
The guy who thinks using a WML will get him killed in the streets, and is convinced he can’t use the spill on a light to ID targets, or use a handheld light with WML. He also seems convinced that he cannot keep his booger hook off the loud switch on his blaster if he does have to use the WML, and will therefore shoot his family as he wildly waves the weapon and light all around.
This is a perplexing issue it would seem for him. How do you even use a firearm in the home if needs be for self defense if you’re terrified of flagging areas your loved ones might be in? Are you going to take a defensive position and leave the pistol, carbine, or shotgun at the low ready, slung, or holstered? Nope, and if you do you’re a moron. So that means if you’re moving in the home/structure the gun should probably be up and anywhere you look, the muzzle should follow. Ever watch a SWAT team, or .mil unit engaged in CQB enter a building expecting trouble or engaged in a fight in the building? Guess what, walls, doors, corners, stairways, basically anyplace a baddie can be gets flagged with the muzzle. No one who is a trained individual is doing that with a weapon at low ready.
Within the confines of your own home defending it, your problem is potentially simplified since you know the layout, where loved ones should be or are likely to be, and you may not need to significantly reposition or search the house. Just because you’re not kicking the door down and entering with a team doesn’t mean the other basic problems are not the same though. Namely scanning for a threat, ID’ing it as a threat, and then taking care of it with the tools you have.... ain’t nobody doing that without looking around, and no one is doing that without the muzzle of their weapon going where their eyes go. Otherwise you are burning precious time on a very very unforgiving clock.
Long story short, you’re going to probably have to flag some stuff, and maybe some people with your weapon. That’s why training to have a lot of discipline to keep your finger off the trigger until you have an ID and understand your back stop is important. This is not a square range with a RSO proctoring you, the nice rules of safe gun handling are going to be bent a little on the not pointing weapons at things you are not willing to destroy. You’re going to lean heavily on the others to prevent that unwanted destruction.