petro wrote:
The only good use for a pistol is to fight your way to a rifle. --
True, except that it's not a good idea in most cities and towns to walk around carrying a rifle. Or, maybe it is a *good* idea, but some people don't like it. And then you're much more likely to have to use it when you really didn't want to.
Pistols are *handy*, but that doesn't mean they are a good tool for the job. They are, at best adequate.
Trust me, carry a pistol -- concealed --- everything will go much better. And trying to carry something like a Desert Eagle concealed, in the Summer wearing shorts and tanktop ain't easy. Life is full of conflicts like this. Should I, or shouldn't I?
I would, were I in Washington State, or any one of the 8 states that it has reciprocity with, carry my HK-p7. As it is, I live in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia, one of a minority of states whose citizens are too ignorant and untrustworthy to be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. -- -- http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense.