Maybe she didn’t want to hit them, just scare them away. I never wanted a gun until after my home was broken into. Then, I knew I could at least shoot to wound, and got a nice big pistol that would knock down a wounded man. It also has a hair trigger, because I learned that when terrified, I didn’t have much strength to pull a trigger.
gleeaikin, I had an officer tell me once ... Never draw a weapon, on an intruder, unless you plan to kill. I would follow that advice, if all my weapons had not been lost in that terrible boating accident.
If you shoot to wound, you stand a much higher chance of the bad guy STILL shooting you. You’ve wounded him, which just pizzes him off.
My old boss wouldn’t even consider letting me go for my CPL and carrying at work (a gun-free zone) until I could honestly tell him I would aim for center mass and shoot to kill. I spent a week thinking about it. When I could honestly say that the only good bad guy was a dead bad guy, then he did everything he could to help me. It takes a lot of serious thought to come to that decision.
I’m glad you have a hair-trigger, but do hope you re-think the wounding part. Unless you can aim well enough to disable both hands, you may be in trouble.