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If I had to choose and buy a shotgun for SD I would choose something with more rounds. If in an emergency a double barrel shotgun was all that was available I'd use it and be grateful for it.
However, a handgun has always been my first choice for SD. And these days I have an additional couple of reasons. One is that I use a cane to get around. I mostly need it for balance, because I have double vision and am only using my dominant eye. If something goes bump in the night (indoors) I respond with a cane in one hand and a handgun in the other. Not with a long gun of any sort that requires two hands to hold at ready or operate. Second reason is the cane gives me sublethal SD or pest control options. An indoor bump in the night is way more likely to be a mouse or rat than something I need to fire a gun at. (If its an outdoor bump in the night, it's free to bump around out there as much as it wants. My neighborhood is adjacent to MacDonald Forest and has everything from rodents to cougars and bears bumping around at night out there, and I feel no particular need to go out and supervise their bumping.)
However, a handgun has always been my first choice for SD. And these days I have an additional couple of reasons. One is that I use a cane to get around. I mostly need it for balance, because I have double vision and am only using my dominant eye. If something goes bump in the night (indoors) I respond with a cane in one hand and a handgun in the other. Not with a long gun of any sort that requires two hands to hold at ready or operate. Second reason is the cane gives me sublethal SD or pest control options. An indoor bump in the night is way more likely to be a mouse or rat than something I need to fire a gun at. (If its an outdoor bump in the night, it's free to bump around out there as much as it wants. My neighborhood is adjacent to MacDonald Forest and has everything from rodents to cougars and bears bumping around at night out there, and I feel no particular need to go out and supervise their bumping.)
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