True enough.
My family was in a Mexican standoff with 2 drunk poachers we had turned in to authorities the day before. They found our campsite while my boys and I were out hunting and spent the next hour or so pointing their guns at my wife from their van and laughing. When we returned to find the situation as it was, we'd probably have been killed had we not been armed. As it was I was put in the position of having to instruct my boys (11 and 12 at the time) to not take their eyes off the poachers while I packed up our tent and gear, and that if anyone started shooting they would need to kill or be killed.
While I felt confident I could drop both of them if it came to that, I did not want my boys and wife to witness that outcome, nor did I want to have to kill someone because they were stupid morons.
In hindsight I should have simply killed them immediately, they did not deserve to live, and I will never risk my family's life again like that for a stranger's.
