The funny thing is I put thought into this and that was my answer. I'm in a country where guns are outlawed, so the pan should suffice.
I agree with the saying, ‘run what ya brung.’ It’s been a few years, but I remember reading about a home invasion in the UK where a man broke into a home and attacked a man’s wife with a butcher’s knife.
Her husband, grabbed a long screwdriver, attacking and killing the man from behind in order to defend his wife and home.
The husband was prosecuted.