HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:45:16 -0400, John H
wrote:

Utter bull****. In most cases handguns are never used in anger. 99% of
them. Your 'most cases' falls in the 1 %. A guy once pulled a knife on
me and demanded money. I pulled a .45 and told him to run. He did.
Had he tried to ' use it against me' I would have shot him several
times. Back in the bin.

Casady
You're much better off listening to Krause. He never bull****s. He
went to Yale, you know.

Reggie may have been talking about h

My use resulted in no shots fired, so it wasn't even reported, Nothing
in the statistics. There are estimates that guns are used to chase off
trouble more than a million times a year, without anyone bothering to
report it. Many successful crimes are also unreported, so it is hard
to get at the truth, even without an ax to grind.

Casady


It pays to have a full-sized, steel handgun, so if you don't have to
shoot the felon wannabe, you can always smack him over the head. My Sig
P226 X5 weighs about 48 ounces sans ammo, and would work well as a
blackjack. Not very concealable, though.


That's about three pounds. You probably need two hands to pick it up.
And I doubt you'd be brave enough, to get within arms length of a
threat, to smack him with your pistola.