[antaresequity]

The best thing a shotgun has going for it, IMHO, is that the sound or racking a round into the chamber should soil the undergarments of almost any intruder.

Sun Tzu:

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

[x1stcav]

Certainly a more elegant way of putting it.