re: Three armed men invade your home at 2am. What do you do?

30 seconds from a dead sleep ain't much time. You need 10 to 15 just to realize what is going on.

Our floor plan has no exterior doors on one side of house. So the guys would have to funnel through a pinch point hallway to get to bedrooms.

Grab pistol, keys, and cell phone.
tell wife to arm an evade.
Run to kids room which is 20 yards down hallway. hit alarm panic button on way there (one button). speaker phone 911.

30 seconds have expired.


In room hit truck alarm button also and position kids in far corner behind dresser. Position myself at kids door way (looking down hallway) and kill first person who enters hallway. if pinch point remains viable stay there if not close door and retreat into room. Wife would now be in master closet, door closed, sitting on floor with cell phone on speaker dialed 911 and shotgun aimed at center of door. Unless she hears the code word clearly from me she is to fire two 00 buck loads through door if the handle twitches.






I have no desire to shoot anyone. If they hear alarms and leave, great. If they ransack house and take everything but fail to enter the bedroom hallway where we are, great. If they breech hallway or either of our personal protective spaces we will need body bags.