I’ve been meaning to hop into this discussion because it has been bugging me like that piece of popcorn that always seems to get caught at the back of your throat.
A few days ago, Chance reviewed the Crimson Trace Lightguard and of course, mall-ninjas came out of the woodwork to harp on how a light gives away your tactical element of surprise during a home invasion. Caleb did a pretty good dissection of the general stupidity here
I see comments like this all the time, and they drive me up the freakin’ wall every time I see them. I don’t know about you, but my position is going to be pretty effectively given away by me screaming at the 911 operator that someone’s in my house and that they need to get cops here most ricky-tick before I have to shoot this guy. The guy that breaks into your house is not going to be some elite operator. The most dangerous type of home invasion is from an amateur criminal or someone high on drugs, and guys on meth tend to not be very subtle. We need to disabuse ourselves of this silly notion that we’re going to be sneaking through the house in the dark like it’s Splinter Cell and train for realistic home defense scenarios.
I see comments like this all the time, and they drive me up the freakin’ wall every time I see them. I don’t know about you, but my position is going to be pretty effectively given away by me screaming at the 911 operator that someone’s in my house and that they need to get cops here most ricky-tick before I have to shoot this guy.
The guy that breaks into your house is not going to be some elite operator. The most dangerous type of home invasion is from an amateur criminal or someone high on drugs, and guys on meth tend to not be very subtle. We need to disabuse ourselves of this silly notion that we’re going to be sneaking through the house in the dark like it’s Splinter Cell and train for realistic home defense scenarios.
Yup, you’re more likely to get invaded by this guy than a tactical ninja with a Six Sigma rating and a 7 Gun Master Certificate.
Seriously, if you’re thinking that a flashlight giving away your position is a serious issue in a home invasion, why even bother owning a gun? In that situation, you’re already outgunned as the master criminal in your living room has probably already set up a beachhead behind the dinette set and, using NVGs and infrared cameras, has already determined the entire families locations for the impending air strike.
Mall ninjas… can’t live with them, can’t really have them committed without a lot of annoying paperwork.
In our home invasion drill the first thing we do is turn on the lights.