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Charles L. Cotton wrote:

Lumberjack98 wrote:I've been trying to find out the gun and ammo used in this shooting and came across this: http://www.examiner.com/article/the-mou ... hat-roared" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The article mentions that is was a TCP, but not the type of ammo.

Regardless of what folks think of the 380, in this case it stopped the BGs from doing what they were doing.

It's interesting to learn what gun he was using. However, I'm not impressed with some of the comments:

Examiner.com wrote:In the firearms community, a small pocket-sized pistol chambered for the .380 ACP, .32 ACP, .25 ACP or the .22 Long Rifle are generically alluded to as “mouse guns” because of their small caliber and mediocre stopping power. One will find them frequently disdained by “mall ninjas” – the twenty- and thirty-something types who dress in cargo pants, “tactical” vests and other accoutrements associated with internet bravado . . .

Really? "Mall ninjas" . . . "internet bravado?" What a combination of firearms ignorance and arrogance.

Here's another one:

Examiner.com wrote:In short, the .380 ACP may get sneers from keyboard gunslingers, but – as in the case of a load of birdshot fired at close range by a homeowner – nobody is going to volunteer to get shot with one.

What does volunteering to get shot have to do with stopping a deadly threat as quickly as possible? Nothing, that's what!

There may be people and circumstances that make a .380 the only choice, but to imply that they are as effective in a defensive situation as larger calibers is absurd.

Chas.

Absolutely true!!! I have a Kahr .380 that I bought a couple years back. At one time I thought it would be a good, "better than nothing", gun. I have since found that there is always a way to carry a 9mm at the least, and after the latest movie theater shootings have started carrying my .45 or my .40 Glock at the least. it is just too easy to make slight modifications in my wardrobe to risk not having as much gun as possible if self defense is called for.

I am glad the old feller reigned supreme on his day of bravery but is darned lucky those thugs were not better armed or he would be very dead. Had he been making those same shots with more caliber, his chances of disabling his attackers would have been much greater.

The question should not be "would you want to be shot with a 380". The question should be, "would you rather be shot by a .380 or a .45?".