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Originally Posted by mkarnold1
My wife is also afraid of shooting, so I told her to use the gun as a deterrent to an intruder. The threat of pumping a 12 gauge should be enough to make a bad guy think twice. If it's not, I taught her the good ol' butt stroke to the face followed by the butt stroke to the groin.  |
If she isn't ready to use it, she shouldn't have it, IMHO. You wouldn't want your wife to be clubbed and then shot with her own shotgun, now would you? Not that there wouldn't be a plethora of other weapons in arms reach, but being a paper tiger is no solution when great bodily harm or death is involved. At CQB distance, she will most likely have lost the battle at that point if she is unwilling to pull the trigger to negate the threat.
It is always a good thing to look at defensive strategies as a fluid learning experience.