1. Menial tasks are menial tasks. I want freshness and change in what I do, not routine and stagnation.
Then you'll have to accept not everyone on the planet is you
2. Sudden, violent introduction of an accelerated piece of metal to your body tends to dull reaction time and reflex for some odd reason. It's also unhealthy. Apply repeatedly until the intruder is gone, unless you happened to be using a shotgun, in which case he's probably something resembling the curtain in the other house's guest room the time I tried to use knives as grappling hooks to climb it.
If you fail to cause sufficient shock, mandem with metal in them is still operating. Takes nerve damage or a shit ton of shock to stop someone, more mass in bullet = more energy imparted = more shock
I'm not commenting on shotgun since that's an entire family of gun so results will vary depending on specifics
1. I acknowledged and made my personal counter to their attempt to emphasize with me. I know that people aren't me, I just want to stop and try to understand, because knowing more is always good.
2. Doesn't a typical, cheap pistol hold about (I'm probably extremely wrong about this) 8-10 bullets? If that's not enough to stop an intruder, odds are that you've done something to make someone with a lot of equipment and money/the government/Skynet really want you harmed. Good thing is that your typical intruder isn't a juggernaut.
You already acknowledged you don't know anything about guns and you like it that way, I dunno why you're explaining them to us.
Actual studies done for law enforcement and military decisionmaking has settled on depth of penetration and diameter of permanent wound channel as the only things that really matter when stopping a human. If you're buying a gun for self-defense you're acknowledging that its use is to kill someone who's trying to kill you. Once you're in that hypothetical, why would you settle for less? Many people have died when the guy they shot (often many times) didn't fall down, and just shot them back. Biggest bullet and highest muzzle velocity you can afford and handle is the only actual choice if you're not just playing. I can't imagine I'd ever need it, but I have a .45. As a human on earth I am responsible for my own safety and it's never a bad idea to be prepared for eventualities. Unless your understanding of the topic is lol im dum murican i gonna shoot u
Most small caliber handguns have more in the range of 12-15 rounds, but if the first two don't do the job chances are the the rest aren't going to either, at least not before he kills you.