Horseshit. Being prepared is being loaded and at the ready AT ALL TIMES. Readying or loading your firearm in front of your target is wasting valuable killing time.
The gun was already loaded, I just grabbed it off my nightstand. There's loaded weapons all over my house. Now there's sobering thought, huh?
OUT FUCKING STANDING. Unless I'm dreaming, that used to say "what's the biggest thing you've shot with your shotgun". I was going to make crude comments, and you had to ruin my fun. Now you sound like someone who speaks a foreign language and is using babelfish to communicate.