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Considering you drive a Cube and have a Pink Cell phone cover, you probably carry a BB pistol....??
I carry a G17, a G19, a G26 and 23 extra mags all at the same time........so I'm ready for 47 bad guys at once
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Wasn't the glock? Austria got them for a hundred bucks with mags, maybe less iirc. A 9mm may expand, a 45 does not shrink. When the ballistic gel people and the mathematicians attack I'll go buy a 9mm.
My theory is pretty simply.
1.) Any gun you carry is probably going to do you more good in a self defense scenario than a gun you dont carry.
2.) The caliber of the gun your carry likely corresponds with your personality, not your needs
3.) No matter how many rounds you carry, Its not enough.
4.) 90%+ of people who carry a gun will never need to use it in self defense
5.) How you train is far, far more important than what you carry, Yet training is discussed little and caliber/weapon selection is discussed endlessly.
6.) Many of the people who carry guns are the least likely to need them (big, intimidating men) Most of the people who should carry them have no interest in doing so (until they are a victim or statistic)
Now I am no kind of expert ( Not really, I am some kind of expert but it has nothing to do with firearms or training
If you look at most self defense, And I mean most not all, You will see that once the victim starts shooting the perpetrator runs away. Almost all of the people who are potential attackers are cowards with no training. They are looking for an easy target. When a gun comes out most of the time even if they are armed they flee. You see all these store robbery videos what happens when the victim has a firearm? The robbers run away.
Now there is a very small chance you could be in some terror event or some other very unlikely scenario where you will have multiple trained bad guys. You got to decide, like right now, if in that case you want to potentially die well being a hero or if you want to save you and yours and flee. If you are going to be the hero that takes on this group of bad guys then you probably need a full size handgun with several extra magazines so you better have them on you. If your goal is to protect yourself and your family its likely a subcompact with just the 7 or 8 rounds will be sufficient.
I think that is something a lot of folks who carry fail to think about. What is it I want to accomplish with this firearm? Many have this grand idea that because they are armed they will simply know how to respond for any eventuality. Its not true.
You will only be ready for what you train for, you really wont know what it is you need to carry until you have trained for it.
You might get lucky and do the right thing if and when the time comes, but it will just be luck as you have put no effort into preparing (other than stuff a pistol in your waistband, which is a start but only step one of a pretty big list)
The other thing is subjectively I know this is the way it is, realistically I cannot train enough nor become a proficient enough yet I can control what gun I carry so that is what I focus the energy on.
I know none of this is news, I am a failure at this as most of us are. I talk a lot about training and basically have none. Its one of those things I know I should do, plan to do, and never do.
Really though that is what I think. Figure out what your goal is by having this firearm and make sure its appropriate for that task. Any tool that does everything will do none of it well. There is no such thing as a perfect carry weapon, everybody has different needs and every choice has some sacrifices.
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