On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:42:54 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 2/27/17 10:47 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:52:43 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I have a pump shotgun for home
defense, but the revolver is handy. At typical in the house distances,
the shotgun will pretty much kill or at least drop the perp with one
shot if I hit his body between the shoulders and the groin.

... Assuming the perp doesn't take it away from you.
I still never understood why they think an untrained person trying to
maneuver over 2 feet of gun around in the confines of a house is
better than a handgun. I do understand they are harder hitting, if you
actually hit anything. There certainly is not going to be much of a
pattern at typical home distances, even with an 18" cylinder bore.
It is all academic in Maryland anyway. If you shoot someone, you are
probably going to jail. It is an "obligation to retreat" state, even
inside your home. You are legally obligated to run away, it there is
any chance at all of you having a way out. In that regard a single
shot .22 may be as good as an M60 because you have to justify every
round from scratch. Oh and don't get too carried away defending
yourself with your bare hands. Each punch is the same way. The first
punch may be self defense but the second could be aggravated assault
... or murder. I know a guy who found that out the hard way.

We've had this conversation previously, and two or three times I've told
you I've talked to both the county prosecutor and the sheriff. This was
quite a few years ago. In this house, as in many houses, there is no
place to retreat to if you are in a bedroom. There have been a couple of
home invasion type incidents I recall in which the house's occupants
took out the invaders and there was no prosecution. While Maryland isn't
Florida, where you can shoot to kill at will and get away with it, we do
allow people to defend themselves in their homes.

I have a good friend who did 7 years in prison and he would disagree.
You still have the obligation or retreat and you are guilty until you
can prove yourself innocent. You will have to prove you had no
possible way to get away,