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I've been trying to remember where I first heard this, but I can't. May have been an Nam era Recon Marine saying. A bad paraphrase: "Never engage in an ambush unless it's one you planned yourself." Other than "Don't stroll into the line of fire, stupid," it's just a different take on the OODA loop and action-reaction curve. If you're standing there flatfooted with your hands up and the bad guy has a Glock pointed at your chest, you're the one being ambushed. If you're going to deploy your weapon, you have to change things up in order to make it an "ambush" of your own planning. And nowadays it's possible and maybe likely that the bad guy is working with a second sleaze ball.