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Carrying something is better than nothing.
.22 short is better than nothing for guns.
Swiss army keychain knife is better than nothing for knives.
The key is consistency, sometimes full size is just not right. Hell, sometimes you want to go bigger under your jacket with a chest holster for bear.
Yep. .22 will bounce. Not as likely to put someone down first shot, but more likely to kill them because it can't penetrate bone a 2nd time (or a first time depending) so it ricochets inside your meat.
I'm going to disagree with you. Consistency is important yes, but so is having something that's going to be effective. Once you've drawn the weapon, you're in a fight for the rest of your life. If you empty 22shorts into him, and he isn't down, he's gonna take that gun and beat you to death with it.
Having an ineffective weapon that you think is effective isn't wise.
I go with 380 +p, but having a .22 pistol or nothing, I think I'm going with a .22.
I tend to think that +p is over rated, especially in short barrels where the extra powder wont count for as much. Also it leads to dramatically increased barrel wear. But yeah, .380 is a solid defensive round, despite what the caliber snobs would say, however, with a hellcat being 9mm, they're somewhat antiquated now.
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