Iceweasel
Diamond Member
I hope you realize her research was useless since 9mm is the overwhelming choice for street shootings. Of course many more deaths are going to show up in looking at raw numbers.I used to date a woman who had been an operating room nurse for 15 years in a VA hospital that seemed to have a somewhat shady clientele. Being a single woman working in a marginal neighborhood at all hours of the day and night, she wanted a gun for protection. She told me that she had made it a point to find out what caliber had been used on the dozens of people undergoing emergency surgery. She told me that the 9 MM wins in the lethal category every time. She agreed that a 45 could make a hell of a mess, but that there was no comparison to a 9MM for being deadly. Of course, in the urban world, nobody walks around with a 357 or 44 mag. On her recommendation, I retired my 38 special revolver and bought a 9 MM automatic. I still keep the 38 special revolver for my bedside nightstand. It is actually mostly for sentimental reasons. It is a WW2 vintage Colt 38 special. Some day, it will be a collector's item.
There are pros and cons to every choice but it's still a pistol round. A single .22 can kill you or you can take 4 .45s and survive. It all depends. And your 9mm is a semi-auto. An automatic only needs one trigger pull to empty out.