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This advice is from lawyers who are looking to make your actions as legally defensible as possible. That isn't the same thing as maximizing your odds of surviving the crime.

There's a reason every professional military trains soldiers to that their knee jerk reaction to a threat should be to attack it as violently as possible (with some nuances). Taking back initiative counts for a ton in an ambush situation.

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I'm trained as a soldier but we still learned to de-escalate if possible.

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If you have reason to believe that the home invaders are their with the purpose of killing you, you may be right.

The odds of that, vs just an armed burglary, are very small.