Whats worse?

Lets say youre a burglar, you force your way into an unknown home at 2AM, youre feeling your way around when suddenly you hear a shotgun being cocked from somewhere in the darkness.
Would that cause you to shite yourself faster than suddenly having a laser beam pointed at you or vice versa?
It takes some onions, a general disregard for your life, and a fairly large helping of dumbarsery to break into a home at night in my opinion. Especially in the South.