What to carry?

[SuaSponte]

This vid says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OHXzX8T5ew

Arguments about 9mm vs 45 make me laugh as well. Ask yourself this, have you ever seen what a 9mm round does to the human body? I guarantee you that upon impact at approx 1000fps, the threat will not shrug it off and say you should have used something bigger. Don't believe me, ask an ER surgeon or 18D who has done live goat labs. 

[SuaSponte]

Here is another. Right through a baseball in slow motion. That is enough to drop a threat. Period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOB8mp_cmgs&feature=related

[SturmRugerSR9]

Don't forget to use hollow point ammo for personal protection. Using the round point FMJ ammo that is designed for range targets is more likely to go through a attacker and not stop them. Where a hollow point will fragment and do major damage. Just a word to the newbies.

[Radnor]

Arguments about 9mm vs 45 make me laugh as well. Ask yourself this, have you ever seen what a 9mm round does to the human body? I guarantee you that upon impact at approx 1000fps, ... 

Box of Fed HydroShok states 1060  @ muzzle.  Box of Win PDX1 920 @ muzzle.  So, lets take the slow one @ 920 and double the mass, I'll take the 45 thank you.  The larger hole in the BG is a bonus!

[fdegree]

Maybe some of you saw this article in the American Rifleman...Handgun Stopping Power: Sizing Up your Options

The author fired 100 handgun loads into ballistic gelatin, measuring velocity, penetration and expansion for each.
http://www.americanrifleman.org/m-articlepage.aspx?id=4546&cid=19

[joek]

Great article.