Well you can never guarantee your life, But if you could change the odds ever so slightly in your favor? Why wouldn't you?? I did say in my post it might have changed the outcome, might not. And by self defense training I meant with the firearm not karate, I am sure she did not have the 5 extra years to train in defense martial arts but gun defensive training is relatively quick.
I guarantee you that this 15 year old twit couldn't hit the broadside of a barn especially under return fire. You think he was so committed for a couple hundred bucks to kill someone he never met that he would risk his own selfish interests when being fired upon? He would soil his pants and flee like the punk he is. Anybody can shoot a gun, it takes practice and commitment to shoot one well. And now to answer your 4 points
A. (What if she didn't have her gun on her?) She should always have her gun on her if she knows there is a threat. But since she was at home all she had to do was retrieve her gun, yell out asking who it is without getting close to the door or opening it and if the response is not adequate take a defensive position in the home and phone the police while being prepared to defend yourself.
B. (What guarantee is there that she would have had a quicker reaction time than the 15 year old?) This isn't the wild west drawing at high noon. Following the above scenario she would be at the ready and have the advantage of knowing his whereabouts while he doesn't know hers. IF he decided to try and force entry he would be doing so into an unknown environment not knowing what direction his intended pray is located. The girl would know the direction of the attack and already be unloading in the general direction. Who do you suppose has the advantage there?
C. (If she did indeed have a faster reaction time what makes you think she would hit him?) Well she has been training in defensive firearm usage including hitting a target. He probably being a 15 year old scum bag has not. He thinks like most gang members that having a gun is enough. And even if she did not hit him he would almost certainly flee seeing as how his defenseless victim is anything but a defenseless victim.
D. (Even if she did draw faster whats to say the gun doesn't misfire?) How many guns have you been around? Do they misfire? Sure but not as often as to make that anything but the most remote of possibility's. Especially if she had a revolver and it was new (Most likely scenario for a new to guns woman who wants to learn immediate defense) In that case if it did misfire then another squeeze of the trigger solves that.
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