9mm or .45 ACP? What is your preferred home defense round?

9mm with Winchester Silvertips

10mm glock

Chuck Norris.

12 ga. pumpkin ball

My .40 S&W

ditto...no brainer


shotgun in close
auto rifle otherwise.

.45

guns are evil

i dare you to put a sign in your front yard stating that guns are evil

Thoughts create Reality

Feel you need a Gun to protect you?

Then you will need protecting and perhaps your Gun will not stop the crime you have attracted to yourself?

easy prey attracts predators

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You know how you keep a theif out of your house, by keeping your door UNLOCKED

Thought Creates Reality

It makes more sense than telling everyone on the net what you have in your house for weapons...

lol... must be nice to live in fairy gumdrop land...

do that in my town and youll wake up with no refrigerator

If that is what you believe

at you

yup,
that is what i have seen...
and seeing is believeing...

people will steal your freakin underwear

A stern warning and wicked tounge lashing should deter even the most determined of criminals.

Um...

You better be a chick and have some really nice underwear...

.45 hands down....

12ga, sawed off barrel, 15 rd special dispenser.

Simple. Many off you twits and your handguns would miss because of anxiety. I won't miss even with my eyes 1/2 closed from being woke up.

Kel-Tec 9mm. Of course I have a variety to choose from.

Keep your hands UP!!!!

Claymores

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Perfect for when the gun collection squad is forming up in the driveway.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this di......"

M203

HI POINT 40 cal. carrbine !American made under 300.00 >Level I II body armour cant stop Level III IIII you still knock'em on butt! Snake skins can take a 40 cal / if they can put 4000.00 for armour they probly have a 10000.00 weapon. excelent CAN gun! HI POINT . COM If you have plenty of cash go to a gun show ! Get a 223 varmit gun for long distance !

You American's with your gun fetishism are truly embarrassing.

Neither. Using a pistol for home defense is foolish.

Either round you mentioned involves using an autoloader, not a revolver, which means you (or your spouse) have to charge and aim it under night-time, high-stress conditions when your adrenaline is rising through the roof.

Then you have to aim it correctly, hoping that the round doesn't miss the Bad Guy, go through the wall and kill your child sleeping in the next room.

If you think you must be "macho" enough to have a handgun as a self-defense weapon, at least get a revolver firing either a .38 special or .357 magnum round. True, it might kill the person in the next room -- but at least you'll be able to fire it without dropping it on the floor as you try to chamber a round.

Better yet, invest in a 12-gauge slide-action shotgun with an 18-inch barrel and load it with #7 dove shot (don't charge it until the Bad Guy gets there -- just the sound of the round being chambered is enough to scare most Bad Guys off). If you must fire it indoors at typical indoor encounter distances (<10 feet) the shot won't disperse to more than three or four inches, will be stopped by most walls (even interior ones) and will having the Bad Guy explaining things to Jesus in short order.

As most of you know, I don't own a firearm and never will, but even I know that kind of basic stuff about home defense.