25 years ago, I held a guy at gun point that was breaking into my house. Thank god my dog woke up me up with the most terrifying low growl I have heard. It gave me time to grab my pistol (.38 revolver at the time) and my cordless phone to call 911

I had imagined the situation a million times, fantasized about it. I was fucking scared shitless and I had the upper hand. Thank god he didn’t make a lunge at me and I didn’t have to shoot (I was ready to) my heart was pounding so hard and my hands were shaking, I may have missed him all
6 times.

My fucking drunk ass college roommate finally woke up and helped me get his ass down on the ground until the cops showed up a few minutes later. It felt like an eternity.

I share this because everyone has a plan until it really happens. Have to give yourself the best opportunity at the time and a scatter gun provides that.

I like to think it’d be different now that I’m a grown man, but I was badass in college and it scared the shit out of me. Had always wanted it to happen so I could blow some asshole away and then it happened and a billion things raced through my mind.

Consequences, the law, how I’d feel, the fear, excitement, adrenaline. All of it. It was a wildly surreal experience to say the least

Be fucking prepared the best you can be is all I’m trying to say and it’s hard to convince me otherwise that a shotgun setup isn’t the best for a home defense firearm situation