Wayne, as the old saw goes, there are many detractors of (fill in the blank) caliber, but I have yet to have one volunteer to be shot with one.

It was formerly said in stopping power statistics (and they have a specific definition of stop, meaning ceased and desisted and ran no more than x feet, and how they can get that from every shooting is beyond me), it was shown that NO handgun round "stopped" much less than 50% of the time, and none of the stats count being shot 2-6 times which is always more effective.

My dad had three purple hearts, and I have zero, and when others had far worse, and makes that survivor's guilt thing hard to take, at times, but everybody has that, even from natural death, so nothing really special, or should not be except we all feel special and entitled at times. As for you, I hope you at least got a ChiCom SKS outta the deal. If you didn't, it may be a little late, but I can hook you up with one.