Shotgun:
Sounds like 1 through 5 are positive reasons to carry a .22.
#6 is the worst reason for carrying any caliber firearm.
Heard a saying many years ago. "If you don't have water available and the only way you can put out the fire is to pee on it, then do it".
I personally dismiss these tiny mouse guns. The only people who benefit from carrying such a small caliber weapon are assassins and brandish-primary users. If you just want to wave it at the gangsters with the brass knuckles, then go to walmart and buy an air soft gun for 1/3 the price.
http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/police-id-slain-home-942224.html
"He forced her into her bedroom," Ritter said. "Once inside the bedroom, she retrieved a .22-caliber pistol and shot him several times." Ritter characterized the attack as an attempted sexual assault.
The suspect ran outside the house and collapsed. He was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he died.
My 70-ish exMiL carried a Beretta Bobcat in .22LR and knew that it was a belly-gun.The .22 in any form (please don't argue endlessly about .22 magnum) simply does not perform these tasks as quickly and effectively for the average American defense shooter.
I personally dismiss these tiny mouse guns. The only people who benefit from carrying such a small caliber weapon are assassins and brandish-primary users.
B*lllsh*t, b*llsh*t, and meaningless bravado.
It seems that you didn't add any evidence to support this. Jake said it didn't matter if you KILLED the assailant if they still have the ability to continue the attack. The guy in your quote easily could have killed the woman if he had any weapon at all.
From The Armed Citizen Archives
March 1975: Aroused at 5 a.m., Mrs. Estelle Beavan, 61, a Seattle widow, found a young man "tearing up the whole front of the house." She telephoned police. BUt when the man, after ripping off a storm door, bashed through a thick double-locked door, Mrs. Beavan fired one shot at about 10 ft. with a small .22 handgun that she had bought on the advice of a "relative in law enforcement." A bullet in the chest halted the intruder. Police said he was crazed by drugs. (The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.)
http://www.americanrifleman.org/blogs/the-armed-citizen-march-29-2012
If he would have been determined he easily could have killed/hurt the home owner, he had enough time and life left in him to do that.
A man shot and killed what police say was an intruder who forced his way into a couple's home on Shinglehouse Slough Road early Thursday morning.
Allen Wayne Saunders, 38, was killed by a single shot from a .22 caliber rifle, said Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier at a Thursday morning news conference.
Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_0bd94802-4bfe-581d-aae6-621807cafd47.html#ixzz1qZIz3kOJ
And if Unicorns roamed the world we could live in peace and harmony. By drinking their magical blood.
You can play the shoulda, coulda, woulda all you want. It won't change the fact that people protect themselves with .22s. People die from .22s. It's funny elderly ladies have no trouble defending themselves with .22s but the sheepdogs can't.