As has been noted, mentioned, quoted, and rehashed, people carry smaller guns for all kinds of reasons.
If work attire is not an issue as is the situation for me currently in the cold off-season. I'll pick my .45 Shield all day long. It weighs very little, is small enough that I don't find it uncomfortable, and this time of year I wear my stretchy Old Navy jeans so I don't have to worry about it digging into my hip/back like I do when I am wearing my more robust work jeans in the summer. The caliber isn't what does it for me over the comfort of the gun so that I will actually carry it. I wouldn't really care if it were 40 or 9mm or even a .380. It's slim and I shoot it well. I kinda forgot I had it tucked in the back of my jeans in my foxx holster. I've got it loaded 6+1 and have an 8 round magazine hanging out in my coat pocket to offset the weight of my cell phone in the other.
When the work weather hits, it's tucked in polo and jeans. I pretty much have to go with something that fits in my back jeans pocket that is not only invisible to customers but I can sit on for at least a half an hour as I go over a proposal. That's a .380. I have no qualms with the .380. The ones I carry I shoot well and have been reliable. I don't mind the .22 magnum either, for that matter if I am down to needing to carry in gym shorts. My work is generally done in nicer parts of town, but I don't fear going anywhere with "just" a .380 on my person. Civil Unrest does not equal Zombie Apocalypse. If for some reason I found myself in such a situation, I doubt I'd be the target and worrying about having enough firepower to "solve" the situation is borderline psychotic, IMHO. Then again, I don't live in a major metropolitan area and any protests have been 100% peaceful here. But I digress. Bottom line: I got 99 problems and a extremely unlikely hypothetical isn't one of them.
I have really streamlined my carry philosophy this year:
Slim single stack when I can (the Shield .45).
Pocket .380 when I can't. (Most of the year about 14 hours a day due to work hustle)
.357 revolver goes in the bag for travel or on my hip when I go out into the woods. (.357 gives me warm and fuzzies over pretty much every other round and is pretty good medicine for anything I am bound to stumble across.)
I'm kinda done overthinking things and talking in circles as to what I carry and why. Goes on my belt or pocket, I go on with my life. I do practice (when ammo is available) so that I am a decent shot, but I'm kinda over crunching numbers over calibers.
If work attire is not an issue as is the situation for me currently in the cold off-season. I'll pick my .45 Shield all day long. It weighs very little, is small enough that I don't find it uncomfortable, and this time of year I wear my stretchy Old Navy jeans so I don't have to worry about it digging into my hip/back like I do when I am wearing my more robust work jeans in the summer. The caliber isn't what does it for me over the comfort of the gun so that I will actually carry it. I wouldn't really care if it were 40 or 9mm or even a .380. It's slim and I shoot it well. I kinda forgot I had it tucked in the back of my jeans in my foxx holster. I've got it loaded 6+1 and have an 8 round magazine hanging out in my coat pocket to offset the weight of my cell phone in the other.
When the work weather hits, it's tucked in polo and jeans. I pretty much have to go with something that fits in my back jeans pocket that is not only invisible to customers but I can sit on for at least a half an hour as I go over a proposal. That's a .380. I have no qualms with the .380. The ones I carry I shoot well and have been reliable. I don't mind the .22 magnum either, for that matter if I am down to needing to carry in gym shorts. My work is generally done in nicer parts of town, but I don't fear going anywhere with "just" a .380 on my person. Civil Unrest does not equal Zombie Apocalypse. If for some reason I found myself in such a situation, I doubt I'd be the target and worrying about having enough firepower to "solve" the situation is borderline psychotic, IMHO. Then again, I don't live in a major metropolitan area and any protests have been 100% peaceful here. But I digress. Bottom line: I got 99 problems and a extremely unlikely hypothetical isn't one of them.
I have really streamlined my carry philosophy this year:
Slim single stack when I can (the Shield .45).
Pocket .380 when I can't. (Most of the year about 14 hours a day due to work hustle)
.357 revolver goes in the bag for travel or on my hip when I go out into the woods. (.357 gives me warm and fuzzies over pretty much every other round and is pretty good medicine for anything I am bound to stumble across.)
I'm kinda done overthinking things and talking in circles as to what I carry and why. Goes on my belt or pocket, I go on with my life. I do practice (when ammo is available) so that I am a decent shot, but I'm kinda over crunching numbers over calibers.