My LCP is a superior choice to my almost 30 year old Beretta Model 21 Bobcat in .25 caliber, which is a fine handgun. The .380 is also much more effective for SD than a pocket knife, which most reading this carry regularly. If with a CHL you dress around the gun, a P220 is concealable but may simply not be practical, stylish or fashionable.
If this is your decision, then I trust you keep the phone number of your criminal defense attorney taped to the back of your CHL.handog wrote:True but if I pull out a gun someone is going to die; me or the bad guy, preferably the bad guy. No pointing.iratollah wrote:If you've ever had a gun pointed at you with bad intentions behind it, you'll know that a barrel on a .25 looks to be about the same diameter as a garbage can.
While there are no hard statistics, NRA claims that there are tens of thousands of episodes each year where armed civilians defused a dangerous situation simply by brandishing. Twice I've reluctantly displayed a weapon to terminate very dangerous situations and I had both the good fortune and good judgment to not discharge the weapon. The weapon served its purpose in protecting me. It may be more correct to say that if the gun comes out you must be prepared to use it. In both of those situations a pocket knife would not have solved my problems, but anything >.22 would have sufficed.
If someone already has the drop on you, it may be reasonable to presume that neither Quickdraw McGraw nor Wyatt Earp would apply handog's philosophy.
