Biden says... buy a double barrelled shotgun

[The Green Manalishi]

60. Probably the best choice for me.

Kids in every direction from my house.

A basic 12G pump with the first round birdshot and the rest buckshot. (If I used my 300 Win Mag it would be deadly several houses away in each direction. Much less chance of something bad happening. OF course I would just as soon let a thief TAKE anything I have, I've nothing worth taking a human live over (does anybody?). ) There in a non zero probability of a violent and deranged person attempting to cause me harm, and also a non zero probability of temporary societal breakdown. Cheap insurance and, like fire insurance, you hope the hell to never use it.

And cheap. Usually between 200 and 300 dollars. and the ammo is cheap and readily available. For the cost of that Glock one could have the shotgun and five or six dozen boxes of ammo. Aint no gun in the world worth a crap if you aren't comfortable with it's use.

Plus there is NO way it can discharge until you 'rack' it. I personally believe that it's just a cliche that the racking sound of a pump is the one sound that will scare the crap out of even the most hardened con, but I also know if *I* heard that sound my only question would be to either run like hell or do whatever the person holding that thing said.