Many gun ranges now have the capability to come to your home and film it and then put you in a simulator to see the best ways to clear your house. Ala Star Trek Halodeck.
I am also an advocate of active closure. I am certain we do not see eye to eye on that either.
I guess we agree to disagree. Hope neither of us have to experience a home invasion or burglary.
I absolutely agree with that hope. I also know that arguments about tactics never end, so most any disagreement is often an impasse.
As an aside, there are two things of great concern on the subject. The first is the criminal technique that began in the San Diego area, of the “knock home invasion”, in which a team often of two invaders with a car and two others on the street in a second car. One of them knocks on a door, and if someone answers, they say something nonthreatening and leave. If no one answers, they break the door down.
The technique moved up the coast and is now moving inland rapidly, so it will probably be national sooner rather than later.
The other is the major problem, with about 20 million Oxycontin abusers, some percent of them addicts, who are now very rapidly moving to cheap Mexican heroin, because the Oxy has been reformulated to make it harder to abuse, and heroin is much cheaper. The changeover to heroin started in the Kentucky to Virginia region and happened overnight. And now the Chicago suburbs have a 220% increase in heroin arrests.
Large numbers of junkies are a major pain in the butt, and will in turn cause a crime wave.
The 20-teen years may soon be called “the home invasion decade”.