I'm not an LEO nor have I ever played one on TV, but I go through the same thing with the LCP. It just seems like a sweet little gun.Excaliber wrote:Still, every time I go to a gun show, I always am drawn to pick up a little Ruger LCP. I admire the engineering, and I think what a great little pocket gun it would make, and how easy and comfortable it would be to carry and hide. Then I think a little more, and the thought line runs something like this:
If I buy it, for sure I'd end up carrying it instead of those other big, heavy, inconvenient guns. (I can be as lazy as the next guy when I let myself get away with it.)
If I end up carrying it almost all the time, the reality is that's all I'd have to work with if I had to reach for it on a really bad day.
Then I sigh a bit, put the cute, light, convenient little LCP down on the exhibitor's table, and go on lugging around those big, heavy, inconvenient guns and reloads I'd much prefer to have really handy if I should encounter another bad day.
This, at the time I'm upgrading my carry from 9mm to 45ACP. Go figure.
