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I'm a physician working in a field where I've seen many gunshot injuries over the past 3 years. In my experience there's a vast difference in what various handgun calibers deliver. The first thing that ever surprised me was how poorly a 9mm round is. Patients of mine hit by 9mm often have unfragmented rounds pass through or tunnel through muscle tissue. .45 or .40 tends to cause more dramatic bone and tissue damage and the rounds were more frequently effective in stopping their subject. More of my patients walked away after getting hit by 9mm (or .38) than if they were hit by .45 or .40.
I don't think 9mm is a "bad" round. Just about any firearm caliber is effective with proper shot placement and there's no substitute for training. If I need to rely in 9mm I'd load up on hydra-shoks or the equivalent. In fact that's what I carry in my HK P7M8. But if I had to trust my life to a handgun I'd rely more on my .40 Glock 23 or my .45 Commander than my 9mm handguns.
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"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence." - Mahatma Ghandi
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