| Shotguns are great defense if you have the room to move around with it and you are familiar enough to grab it, pump it, shoulder it and fire.
For quick response, I would tend to agree on an Hand gun. You can keep them in the bedside table or any place of conveince and if it is a DOUBLE ACTION, it can be resting on an empty chamber, but one pull of the trigger and the message of lead is on its way.
Ladies usually don't like kick in their hand guns to start off with, so I would lean towards a 22 mag. If you want to hurt the intruder, you want to be able to place a good round in his direction, once pain is felt, the brain usually changes to a different mode and that usually means putting the left foot in front of the right foot in the opposite direction at a least a 240 beat. If you want noise than any larger caliber will work, but intruders are tuned to the fact that noise isn't always associated with pain.
I guess over all, take the advice from above and try what works for you BOTH and what you BOTH can handle comfortably and accurately, after all it is BOTH of your lives at stake. |