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Not another 9mm vs. .40 or .45 debate.
I'll cut to the chase - after years of seeing patients with gun shot wounds of different calibres I will say that I prefer .40 or .45 for personal defense. There is a dramatic difference between the nature of the wounds.
I suppose you can make the case with 9mm hydra-shok or other "safety ammo" (I haven't treated many of those wounds to my recollection) and, in truth, any calibre can kill. I just prefer to put my faith in a .45 - and that much more in .45 hydra-shoks.
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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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