[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

"A .22 in the hand is better than a .44 at home".

I remember, back about 10 years ago, hearing about an elderly retired school teacher in Birmingham, Al. who halted a barber shop robbery with a .22 Derringer. Two bullets, two head shots.

No joke, after the perps robbed everybody he sent one to the morgue and one to the hospital. The robbers told the them all to lay face down. He assumed the robbers were going to kill them, execution style, so he went for broke.

[AnAmericanMother]

We had a barber here that foiled a robbery of his shop - he kept a .32 auto in the cash drawer. Killed one goblin stone cold dead, and shot the other guy's left eye out.

Just to add to the general fun and amusement, the D.A. charged "Blinky," the survivor, with armed robbery and aggravated assault. He was convicted, and the case went up on appeal on the interesting question of whether the robbery was completed when the barber dropped his cash on the floor, since he hadn't surrendered the money direct to the robber (the shooting started after that.) (In Georgia, the answer is "Yes. Go to jail, go directly to jail. Do not pass 'Go', do not collect $200. And put some ice on that eye.")