Right, that's why I said she went to her bedroom to get it.
By closer to hand, I mean closer to where she needed it so that she would have been able to get to it more easily during the encounter. As it was, she ended up having to drag the chair to her bedroom, retrieve the gun, then drag the chair back to where he had left her. That apparently didn't leave her any time to dial 911 which could have prevented her from lying on the floor for 10 hours with multiple gunshot wounds.