You can't shoot or intimidate anyone with a gun that you don't have out and pointed at your attacker. 34 years as a life member of NRA, reading the Armed Citizen column every month, as well as the Annual Crime Survey and the FBi's Uniform Crime Report, , a fair amount of personal experience (held men at gunpoint 4x in my life) conversing with hundreds of "gun guys" (Bill Wilson, Jeff Cooper,Mas Ayoob, Ken Hackathorn, Jim Cirillo, Mike Dalton, Mike Harries, Harry Claflin, many others of IPSC fame, as well as average joes, establishes that most of the time, the defender with a GUN visible does not even have to FIRE in order to run off his attacker. Also, many more good guys win by MISSING, and that many more win by getting POOR hits, even with a "mere" .22lr. Most of the good guys don't really do much of anything right, but they win anyway, because the bad guys are even MORE inept and are cowards on top of it.

If you get shot, you are going to die of the infection, basically, if you don't get modern medical care. Med personnel MUST, by law, report all gunshot wounds to the cops. So the bad guy is going to die or go to prison if he gets shot. They all know this, which is why very few of them force you to hit them with a bullet. That is, IF you get your gun out and "on" them soon enough for them to see it and and just flee.