Tara considered the guns for a long moment before deciding she'd only use a gun if she absolutely had to, and nothing in the Danger Shop counted as 'absolutely have to.'

But when the zombies attacked, she missed with her second baseball-bat tap, went down, had her mind go blank of any useful magic, and almost got virtually eaten before scrambling away.

On the to-do list: More defensive magic that she could do while scared out of her mind.