Unless you're 100% certain that you can remain in your bedroom and allow the bad guy to come to you, a long gun is not a wise home defense weapon. If you have to leave your room for any reason, you run the very real risk of having a bag guy take a long gun from you.

I'd go with a handgun.




�If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.�
***US President James Madison***