Closest Encounter With Death

I was walking in the neighborhood with some of my friends when suddenly my friend (let’s call him Jake) said “let’s go ding-dong-ditch this house!”. My two other friends thought it would be funny, and I went along with them, as I never really was wanted, so it was very fun to be included. One of my other friends decided to ring the doorbell, and we all book it. I hid behind a big mailbox (the ones that has the whole neighborhoods mail in it), and my friends scatter behind cars and other houses. Well it turns out we picked the wrong house. The guy who came out that door looked like the definition of a Navy SEAL, who wouldn’t want to take any crap. Once the man realized he got pranked, he got furious and went back inside his house. Me and my buddies met back up and hid behind a car, and somebody got the bright idea to ding-dong-ditch him again! I was a little nervous, but of course, I went along with it. So this time I rang the doorbell, and as soon as I rang it, the man opens his door and steps out with what looked like a sawed off shotgun. Us being the the twelve year olds we were, we crapped our pants and booked it out of there. Not sure if the shotgun was loaded, but we didn’t stick around to find out.
TL;DR: Ding-Dong-Ditch prank nearly gets my 12 YO butt shotgunned