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Originally Posted by Rule10b5
Carry whichever you can shoot better (assuming equal reliability), practice as much as you can, and don't worry about caliber or stopping power. All handguns stink, and the 9mm and .38 are practically identical in terms of exterior ballistics.
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My personal opinion: all this caliber angst is a way of substituting a problem you can buy a solution for (ammo) for a problem that requires real work and effort (practice and training). The same people making 30 posts about caliber are often the same people not signing up for training, even though the latter is about 100x more important to your survival than caliber.
This is captured by Jeff Cooper's perfect phrase: "the error of PII (Preoccupation with Inconsequential Increments)."