Flashlight is the best of all tools you mention. What I learned, shima ryu ninjutsu, is all mind and mind games. I’m hardly in shape for rushing in like you did, all heroic, even if that were wise. But if anyone gets in my house where I’m protecting my own kids, I will kill them with or without a gun, bad shape and all.
Yeah, dumb then, dumb now. Just reacted. Do they allow hunting or air rifles or bows or blackpowder muzzleloaders?