What if...

In Georgia, an evil git breaks into a house during the day. The woman inside hears the man forcing the door, calls her husband, then and takes her two children and hides in a crawlspace. Once in the house the evil git opens the closet door behind which are the woman and her children. He finds the woman, her children, and a .38 revolver pointed at him. The woman empties the revolver into his face hitting him five times. She orders him to the floor and he complies. She takes the children and runs. The police later find the evil git in a nearby driveway. He survived. The woman and her children were frightened but unharmed. It ended relatively well, but what if...

What if the evil git wounded had still been able to attack the woman? What if the evil git had been accompanied by other evil gits. What if the six rounds in the woman's revolver hadn't been enough to get the job done. That's the rub. The prohibitionists seem to think they know how many rounds a person needs to defend themselves. They tell us ten rounds are enough. Reality is they don't know and I don't know. The woman is fortunate the six rounds in her revolver were enough. I'd rather she have had a semi-automatic pistol, in the caliber of her choice, with the "highest" capacity of rounds the magazine would hold. I'll err on the side of caution and the prohibitionist can pound sand.