crappie cowboy
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Home Defense
I can tell you from first hand experience you will not be prepared for a surprise gun fight in the dark of night, or anytime for that matter, in most cases.
I'm a Viet-Nam vet and was well trained, I assure you anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
If someone kicks in your back door at 3:00 am, your sound asleep, and while you are trying to get your eye's open, and your head right to figure out what you heard, the bad guys are already in your house.
All the training and shooting at the range will not kick in at this moment, you are startled, not awake and not in your right sense's from deep sleep.
Then come's panic, everything starts going bad for you, you'll fumble your weapon, you don't know where your children are at this moment, are they in the hall running to you, or they in bed.
A million things are going thru your head at once, your wife screaming, the children screaming, the bad guys screaming at you, maybe firing there weapons in the house.
Home invasion is very fast, thats the whole purpose, to surprise you.
There is nothing wrong with training and shooting, don't get me wrong, but that is done when you are wide awake, and having all your senses about you.
No one in coming at you in your house at 3:00 am with a weapon shooting.
A shotgun is a awesome weapon, I have two myself, but I rather have a hand gun on my nightstand.
It will be much harder for the bad guy to wrestle the handgun away from you than a shotgun. If you come out of your bedroom with a shotgun, the long barrel is out in front of you, so easy to grab it, are wrestle with you.
The bad guys will always have the upper hand of surprise on you. How long would it take you to get awake, and have your senses about you to realize someone is in your house?, or is it your child in the kitchen that knocked over something, or maybe your dog or cat.
The home owner has so many check offs before he go's in full combat mode, your at a very big disadvantage.
I have to take a sleeping aid for me to sleep, and once I'm asleep the bad guy could even get in bed with me and I wouldn't know it. I'm sure some of yall maybe in my shoes too, so what are we to do about that problem?
Bad guys have the drop on us for sure, but if he picks a night when I can't sleep, it's gonna be a bad night for the bad guy.
crappie cowboy
I can tell you from first hand experience you will not be prepared for a surprise gun fight in the dark of night, or anytime for that matter, in most cases.
I'm a Viet-Nam vet and was well trained, I assure you anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
If someone kicks in your back door at 3:00 am, your sound asleep, and while you are trying to get your eye's open, and your head right to figure out what you heard, the bad guys are already in your house.
All the training and shooting at the range will not kick in at this moment, you are startled, not awake and not in your right sense's from deep sleep.
Then come's panic, everything starts going bad for you, you'll fumble your weapon, you don't know where your children are at this moment, are they in the hall running to you, or they in bed.
A million things are going thru your head at once, your wife screaming, the children screaming, the bad guys screaming at you, maybe firing there weapons in the house.
Home invasion is very fast, thats the whole purpose, to surprise you.
There is nothing wrong with training and shooting, don't get me wrong, but that is done when you are wide awake, and having all your senses about you.
No one in coming at you in your house at 3:00 am with a weapon shooting.
A shotgun is a awesome weapon, I have two myself, but I rather have a hand gun on my nightstand.
It will be much harder for the bad guy to wrestle the handgun away from you than a shotgun. If you come out of your bedroom with a shotgun, the long barrel is out in front of you, so easy to grab it, are wrestle with you.
The bad guys will always have the upper hand of surprise on you. How long would it take you to get awake, and have your senses about you to realize someone is in your house?, or is it your child in the kitchen that knocked over something, or maybe your dog or cat.
The home owner has so many check offs before he go's in full combat mode, your at a very big disadvantage.
I have to take a sleeping aid for me to sleep, and once I'm asleep the bad guy could even get in bed with me and I wouldn't know it. I'm sure some of yall maybe in my shoes too, so what are we to do about that problem?
Bad guys have the drop on us for sure, but if he picks a night when I can't sleep, it's gonna be a bad night for the bad guy.
crappie cowboy
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