[JWinNC]

"...armed with a pistol a friend had given her for protection."

Thank God!

I pray she never has a "next time" but if she does, I would advise her to shoot sooner.

jw

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

I pray she never has a "next time" but if she does, I would advise her to shoot sooner.

I concur but now it's time to give the gun that she borrowed back to it's rightful owner, take a class in the proper use and care of handguns, and then go and buy a handgun of her own (and then go out and practice with it - shoot some holes in paper targets)!

Finally, regarding the guilt, anguish, fear, relief or whatever other emotion that she feels - my Mom used to say, "This too shall pass." The Boy Scouts have saying (I believe it's their Motto), "Be Prepared" - if she doesn't ever want to go through that again, learn to keep and use her own gun!

[Mr. Silverback]

I pray she never has a "next time" but if she does, I would advise her to shoot sooner.

I would have been saying "I'm armed and I will shoot if you come through that door" at the part where he's trying to break in and she's yellling "Stop it."

But hey...it's easy for me to say that sitting in my safe living room in Illinois with firearm training under my belt. I'm sure this was the first time she had ever been through anything remotely like this, and probably the first time she'd contemplated using a gun.