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There are several basic rules often stated:
1. Have a plan to retreat to a safe room that has a solid door that locks, provides some protection (like a big bed), is equipped with a cell phone, covered windows, emergency lighting, a 20 bore youth model shotgun filled with duck/goose loads (shoot em' in the face) and a handgun.
2. Retreat if possible to that room.
3. Have good outside lighting with motion detectors.
4. Never answer the door to unknown people.
5. If there is an incident that results in gunfire, be sure there is only ONE witness. (you).
6. If there is an incident, say NOTHING to the police without an attorney (yours) present.
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The fact that these things are often stated does not make them right.
Greg has already addressed # 1.
The fifth one is downright bad advice. First, if a person you have shot does not happen to die, you cannot administer a coup d'etat to eliminate him. Second, the dead will testify, through forensic evidence. Third, should one eliminate third party witnesses? Come on, now.
Regarding # 6: if there's a second crook in the basement, or if an accomplice has escaped, or if someone has been wounded and requires immediate attention, are you going to wait until your attorney has arrived to give that information?
I doubt that you would find such advice in books by "real experts."