Youre the tool with a loaded shotgun in your corner like youre living in the days of Billy the Kid.
Good luck. You need it. Youre a hard headed fvkk in all parts of your life, no doubt. The good news is when you make a mistake, and a kid gets your gun, they will send your hardheaded azz to prison.
I dont have catlike reflexes or even young eyes anymore but I can still shoot lower mid level at competition. I can also roll over in my bed, put my hand on my safe (it recognizes my print immediately and was just over $100) and have a pistol in my hand in a split second. Moving to the gunsafe for longarms takes only two or three seconds more though in reality I tend to collect myself for a bit whenever I hear a bump in the night. Mine does have a fingerprint reader or a keypad but those arent that expensive now either.
Ive been a instructor in some capacity since the late 80s. But yeah, throw out some 21 foot rule crap you saw in a youtube video about knife attacks as if it somehow supports your practice. Believe what you want. Anyone on youtube or who was a truck driver in the Natl Guard once is an expert/instructor right?
You (and Ox) keep talking about waking up w ninjas already in your bedroom. A shotgun in the corner wont help for that scenario. Thats a huge shytsandwich and youre not just taking a nibble. If bedroom ninjas a re a real threat, you need something else, security alarm, dogs, lighting probably. No one wins that scenario without sheer luck.
Again, good luck. The chances are almost zero that you will ever need a gun to protect yourself at home, though I obviously support and encourage everyone to be prepared. It is also about 100 percent that you will forget it in that corner and about 100 percent that your kid or kids will play with your gun at some point in the future. Hopefully they (and their friends) are smart.