we just got back from MSF safety course as wife finally decided to get her ltc. took a long time.
one of things the instructor spoke there was the defense strategy for those who live in apartments, a part that i kinda dig now, is to have a 12ga shotgun in the safe in the bedroom loaded with pepper capsules first then buckshot, next to it - the 9mm handgun. and if anything happens - you take the defense at your child bedroom with that shotty and handgun next - do not engage the intruder but wait for them to come to you while having 911 on the call and screaming repeatedly - 'i am armed but do not want to use any lethal force - leave now'.
he was saying that it is pretty much guaranteed that after a 12ga pepper blast into the perpetrator it will be over - and without the usual confiscation of weapons, and whole civil circus lawsuit from an injured assailant afterwards.
we live in a shitty state. it was a while when i heard all that shit at my safety course i do not even recall when, but, it is only getting worse. he was talking of a 84 yr old lady who shot the armed intruder - all legal, no police charges, no criminal shit - and then she got a 100k civil lawsuit from the perp in the jail and she was found guilty, as the criminal would have to limp for the rest of his life. she got him in the leg - therefore a reason for a buckshot, to spray perp on the wall. it is what the judges here do. all this is very depressing.