I worry far more about my wife being attacked while out and about with the kids, whether that's in a population center or in the woods. Since she likes and will shoot a moderately loaded 9, which kicks Hell out of anything smaller like a 380, I like the 9. A lot. I even carry one sometimes. Can you imagine an average guy carrying the same lung-blowing, Brownie-slaughtering cartridges that the uber-bad-asses in LE carry? It's a great country.


I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.