Another Gun Thread: Question Inside

[Young Gun]

So within the past few weeks there have been a number of break-ins around the neighborhood. Only cars really but none the less it is not very comforting. I am heading off to college in a few weeks, and my brother returns to school before me. My dad also travels around the world for most of the week, and that leaves my mom with my little brother at home. What it comes to is that we want to get my Mom a handgun. Hopefully she will never need to use it, but it would make my brother, Dad, and myself worry less about her being all alone. My question is, what type of handgun would you recommend? Do any of your wives/ girl friends have a handgun? My mom is a pretty small woman, she is about 5'5", 5'6" (okay well that's small compared to my brother 6'4" and myself 6'3" 210lbs). I was thinking of something like the Kel-Tec P3AT, never shot one myself but with a 5lb trigger its pretty light, I will shoot one before, as will my mom obviously, but does anybody think it is worth the time to shoot?



Thanks for any input you may have. I really do appreciate it!

Colin