I want to get this straight. Your answer is "go back to sleep" because going downstairs where there might be an intruder is too dangerous? Remarkable
No, that isn't what I said... but why break an uninterrupted streak of just making stuff up?
Geesh, planning on making an honest post today?
As for the false dilemma fallacy, I don't think that's remotely applicable.
When someone asks a question and intentionally skews all options, other than their preferred answer, in a negative light.... that is exactly the definition of a False Dilemma Fallacy.
Your argument reminds me of the argument against CC that goes like this: "If I thought I was headed someplace so dangerous I needed a gun, I wouldn't go to that place!" Well, sure, if you know you're going to need a gun, sure, skip it. What if you're just 99.9% sure you won't? Don't go? Stay at home from everywhere?
How is that in any way applicable to me saying that an ambush is always better than a meeting engagement?
That is EXACTLY what you said. See below.
I said that in relation to a known intruder, not in relation to a bump in the night. Stop trying to make those two different concepts the same thing.
Please provide statistics on the likely hood of someone searching their own home getting killed. I've seen the "Armed Citizens" in the NRA mags where 90 year old men (and women) search their own home with a gun and "get the bad guy". Prove to me those are anomalies, and that most people who do this die.
Yet again perfectly confirming that you have never had any sort of proper training in this sort of thing. If you had, you wouldn't be asking me to prove that the homeowner is at a disadvantage over the intruder.
If you had any sort of training, you guys wouldn't stop using the two story house example and coming down stairs to search. That's just cringe worthy. Every one who has ever had this sort of training or experience knows that oh hell no, I'm not clearing down a staircase without smoke or flashbangs to cover me down the stairs. F that. I mean, have you guys even spent a second considering the tactical considerations involved in moving down a staircase? What is the armed invader going to see first, your weapon or your ankles? Do you like your ankles? Apparently not, because you guys are awfully excited to be gong down those stairs to find Mr. Intruder.
Bottom line is you don't need SWAT training to defend your home. Most criminals are abject cowards who will run away at even the slightest hint that the homeowner is armed and ready to act in self defense.
Which do you think is safer for the homeowner, to go find the intruder to yell at him that you are armed, or to do so from a safe, defensible location while on the phone with the police?