Hope they catch the intruders and put them in jail for life especially the one with many warrants.

Meanwhild YTD 790 people were shot "unintentionally" which I suppose means by accident.

572 children under the age of 11 were shot.

42,720 were killed or injured by guns.

Weigh all that against the 595 unicorns, er I mean defensive gun usages.

Then there's this from the NIH:

it was a compilation of existing research projects. It included the widely debunked Kleck 'research' that claimed 2 million DGUs a year. Among the flaws found in that "study" were no controls for false positives or negatives and the lack of control for gun owners vs non gun owners when extrapolating from the study to the general population. In other words, it wasn't a 'study' so much a telephone poll. As evidence for it's exaggerated claims one citation showed that the number of estimated woundings of assailants was larger than the total number of gunshot wounds treated in the year of the poll was taken.

So, yeah, those numbers still get included in various reports but no reliable statistician accepts them.

As an aside, when it is pointed out that only 30% of those surveyed own guns the gunners all say that nobody would tell a telephone poll that they own a gun, so the polls are faulty. On the other hand gunners openly and enthusiastically embrace Kleck's numbers gleaned from a . . . telephone poll. Why's that?

'Nuff of that.

would been a better defensive weapon, even if limited to 4 rounds. In fact bird shot, thought less deadly, would have been all that’s needed in a home.
In a state with a “duty to retreat” first, it would always my first move.

in the head with her 40 caliber survive pistol and it turned and ran after the round bounced off its head. It survived. But it did run off. One doesn’t need to kill someone with 60 rounds, just stop the attack. The last thing I’d ever want to do is kill another human being.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't go light when my family or my own life is at stake. Same reason I wouldn't depend on a .22 LR. It's called personal protection for a reason, some people's choice while adequate for their own conditions would be unsatisfactory for someone else.

My own is 10 MM, my wife's is .223. If #6, or 7 1/2 works for your needs, it works for your needs, just not mine.

I hope everyone has a plan for the worst ( 50 cal, .410 snake charmer, a barking dog, or running out the back door, etc. ) , but never have to put it to the test.

“Cheap home security”. Lots of easy and cheap ways to keep the bad guys from even thinking about picking your home to invade. Ounce of prevention to stop them.
Shooting a buy guy can cause you wish you had found a better way. Revenge by the guys friends, hiring lawyers to start. A lot of tuff soldiers learned about a lifetime of PSTD after a defensive act that was justified.

I imagine you've spent some money on the doors if you are concerned about the safety of your family

without a pocket knife and showed me his Swiss Officer's knife. He said it saved his life.

I said,"What, you killed a man with that??"

He said, "No, I made him stop doing what he was doin'."

Me, "What was he doin'?"

Him, "Killin' me."

Moral of the story is killin' somebody ain't the point.

They weren't reported. There were actually 500,000. I just can't prove it . . .