But, you see, I sleep with my shotgun loaded, safety off and my finger on the trigger. Also, I keep one eye open at all times. Every 1.5 hours I change which eye is open......believe me?

In all seriousness, I find a lot of usefulness from NoMercy's last post. I, too, keep a shotgun (2, in fact) loaded in the bedroom. There are 4 pistols that stay loaded in the bedroom, though, and one of them would be what I would grab first. If time was an option, I'd get a shotgun, but with two fans going, they are going to have to be making some more racket in the rest of the house to wake me up. The bedroom door doesn't open without me waking, though. Sometimes I wish that wasn't the case, but that's the way it is. Hopefully I'll never have to be glad that I woke up when someone opens the bedroom door.

No matter what you choose for home protection, proficiency with what you use is the key. You are not going to "get lucky" in a real-life situation. Be prepared.