People who are not trained in the use of firearms should not try to be a hero. All you have to do is hesitate for a couple of seconds and you are dead. That is, if you don't shoot your own foot off.

The NRA would never print that story about the man who woke in the night, heard someone in the hall, grabbed his gun and blew his daughter away. She got up to pee and ended up dead. This was not an isolated incident either. It happens much too frequently.