Good solution.
The TASER in mind is the new model and it flat takes you out immmedately.
However, using the towel as a shield was very quick thinking.
The observations regarding the condition of the handgun was likewise good.
Two points for this scenario:
1. Once you've made physical contact your actions must be definitive. Don't underestimate a pretty face and figure. If she's weapons savvy (snagged the pistol, didn't she?) she may also be hell on wheels H2H wise. You're nude and very, very vulnerable. Make it count!
2. No one yet has offered backing off, locking the bathroom door, and either using in-room phone or cell, yelling, or just waiting a few minutes then doing tactical sneak and peak to see if the apartment has been vacated by the BG (bad girl?
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This strategy is often overlooked. It's called "Attack in Retrograde". Violently withdraw and fade away. If they want you, make them come to you. That, at the very least, beefs up your self defense posture post incident. What's a few buck and easily replaced ID and credit cards when it comes to you health or life? One of the most challenging things to teach cops is how to break contact and back it off. Cops are taught to encroach. Anymore, mindless or needless encroaching may be just what is wanted by the BG. Back it off, secure the area, call in back-up, make a plan, carry it out.
Works in individual self defense, too.
That gal might just jerk our .45 and pop us half dozen times through the towel without a thought.
She's a burgler, not an assassin. Burglers like to burgle then get. Few are violent. The ones that are carry and take to weapons. That means the red flags should go way up when you spot such an opponent. Identify the threat and respond accordingly. Cut your losses where and when you can. Know why, then know how.
Sierra