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The way my townhouse is laid out dictactes all of this.
My bedroom is at the top of the stairs, the kids bedroom is down the hall.
If I engage intruders as they come up the stairs - I am shooting toward an adjoining townhome. If I engage them as they come down the hall, I am shooting toward the front of my townhouse - no adjoining dwelling, but there are townhomes across the street.
I see this debate as a variation on the quest to find the magic bullet. Unfortunately, any projectile whether it be a bullet or buckshot or whatever follows the laws of physics and anything with enough mass and velocity to incapacitate a human aggressor also tends to pass right through things like drywall, plywood and aluminum siding.
Projectiles that don't penetrate through drywall, plywood and aluminum siding also tend to not penetrate an attacker deeply enough to reach vital organs and then you're relying on a psycological stop of the assailant to end the attack.
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