There is this crazy perception that if you aren’t carrying a thousand dollar pistol with a 12-15 round capacity, modular optic system and a flashlight appendix carry you dont have a real gun and are bound die a horrible death. It’s odd. I get there has been some rare horrible situations that it might help. But most defendable situations are still inside 7 foot and involve only a few shots. I often carry a 442 with five rounds and one speed strip just in case. I don’t feel poorly armed. But I also work to avoid places where I’d prefer to have more. An LCP is on a list of things to buy. Just not soon. I’m trying to what I own more. I have heard io plenty of people carrying the LCP. Every thing shy of a full rifle is a compromise. Just buy what you feel comfortable with and go where you feel safe. To heck with the mall ninjas who need to have a laser gun to check the mail.
I carry a box stock Glock 17 with night sights, and a reload. I do carry AIWB, as its the most secure and fastest and easiest way Ive found so far, to carry a gun and get it going.
I also shoot all sorts of different stuff each week too, and one of those is a 642, and a couple of other "snubbies" a couple of times a month. While I still have a Seecamp, I gave up on that once I figured out my Glock 26 would work in the same types of holsters I was carrying the Seecamp in. I got rid of my LCP's, and a couple of others right around then too. I kept the Seecamp, mostly for sentimental reasons, and as I still believe, for that type of gun, its the one the others have to try and beat.
Even shooting them all the time, its blatantly obvious, the smaller guns, both in size and capacity, are limited in usefulness and effectiveness, compared to the larger, more appropriate full, and slightly smaller, compact sized guns. They are harder to shoot well with when "actively" shooting, and beyond a single opponent, or maybe a complicated situation, they run empty too fast.
We dont/wont (normally) get to pick the situation we get, the other guy does. We get to react. And we get exactly what we get, whatever it may be, and whether you're ready for it or not. Thats what you have to be ready for.
If you dont at least try and work some things out in practice, like drawing while you move, shooting while you move, multiple targets, etc, etc, and have a good base that will allow you to deal with things that Im willing to bet, most LCP carriers are not doing in regular practice (hell, its not just them either), you're going to be WAY behind the curve if and when something happens, no matter the distance.
You may not like to hear it, but that is part of your "responsibility" part of this equation too.