I agree with a 12 ga. pump. Residential robberies are seldom performed by individuals and I have seven rounds in the tube of my pump - easy to reach and my wife and I are extremely familiar with it. It is easy to point in the right direction and harder to point in the wrong direction than a pistol. A 357 mag will go through a person, leaving them wounded and keep traveling through the outside walls of my house and that of my neighbors. The shotgun pellets usually stop in the perp but even a clean miss will be stopped by the exterior walls.
Yep, he or they will be in pieces and puddles all over the hardwood floors but I am sure they will never terrorize anyone else ever again. I can feel good about that.
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