bigfatdave
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Weevil, I do occasionally carry a .32 when I can't have a gun. But if the criteria for ET's selections is "bigger is better" then the big five-oh is bigger than fo-tay. Because I understand that my protective hardware is to get me OUT of trouble rather than being a device enabling me to seek out gunfights, I don't worry about much beyond being able to deploy the weapon and apply lead to a target as needed. Muggers don't carry calipers to measure bore size, and neither do the idiots who get into shootouts with cops.
.355" --> .4" --> .45" -->.5" ... ... whoop-de-do! Differences of five hundredths of an inch!
Everyone gets so worked up about a zero point zero five inch difference, but does anyone go up another twentieth of an inch? Nope! The point is that a handgun is a bag-o-compromises, and they all suck at causing involuntary stops, and the endless, pointless, idiotic, myth-steeped, opinion-driven, fact-deficient, debates on one caliber over another will never end, whether it is discussion of the military handgun caliber selection, po-po handgun loadings, carry guns, or that old standby "home defense" ... the focus will ALWAYS be on the hardware and the software will always be ignored, because the advice of "go out and get some damn range time, idiot" is just too simple for online debate or even in-corpus conversation. Everyone's looking for a magic bullet to blow scary people out of their shoes just like in the movies, nobody wants to go to any trouble training or even getting used to their selected gun. Everyone is an expert in the exact hardware used at every event, and the po-po should have selected a different bullet weight or caliber because every beat cop takes a lot of time selecting their duty weapon instead of being issued one and qualifying only when required, right?
Eh ... screw it all, cops should be armed with whatever they get at gun buybacks, including the ammo that comes in the guns. They can stop wasting my taxpayer dollars chasing the feebs hardware choices, or buy their own hardware and qualify to MY standards with it.
.355" --> .4" --> .45" -->.5" ... ... whoop-de-do! Differences of five hundredths of an inch!
Everyone gets so worked up about a zero point zero five inch difference, but does anyone go up another twentieth of an inch? Nope! The point is that a handgun is a bag-o-compromises, and they all suck at causing involuntary stops, and the endless, pointless, idiotic, myth-steeped, opinion-driven, fact-deficient, debates on one caliber over another will never end, whether it is discussion of the military handgun caliber selection, po-po handgun loadings, carry guns, or that old standby "home defense" ... the focus will ALWAYS be on the hardware and the software will always be ignored, because the advice of "go out and get some damn range time, idiot" is just too simple for online debate or even in-corpus conversation. Everyone's looking for a magic bullet to blow scary people out of their shoes just like in the movies, nobody wants to go to any trouble training or even getting used to their selected gun. Everyone is an expert in the exact hardware used at every event, and the po-po should have selected a different bullet weight or caliber because every beat cop takes a lot of time selecting their duty weapon instead of being issued one and qualifying only when required, right?
Eh ... screw it all, cops should be armed with whatever they get at gun buybacks, including the ammo that comes in the guns. They can stop wasting my taxpayer dollars chasing the feebs hardware choices, or buy their own hardware and qualify to MY standards with it.