After extensive discussion of this video & premise on another forum, I'm too pooped to repeat it.
Suffice to say that, as a retired career cop & professional gun evaluator of 29 years, my experiences combine to prevent me from carrying a pocket gun unless I absolutely have to, and then I feel quite uncomfortable & distinctly undergunned when I do.
I have seen sufficient evidence, personally, to persuade me that caliber does make a difference, placement is NOT everything, and never, ever, ever can or should you depend on the mere display of a gun to end aggression toward you.
I own the same .25 Beretta pictured at the beginning of the video, and either own or have experience with others depicted.
I've seen what TENDS to work more often than what TENDS not to work.
I have not seen anything that persuades me a .25, a .32, or a .380 is effective & reliable enough to bet my life on.
Please don't even try to tell me an NAA .22 single-action snub is an adequate defensive shield.
Yes- people have died from all of the above.
People have also died from rocks, hammers, knives, baseball bats, and ice-picks. What's your point?
I've talked to two very-alive shooting victims of .22s. One in the ER, where the victim was merely annoyed with his leg wound from a fight, the other in a restaurant, of all places, a year or so after the shooting. He was still debating whether or not to get the bullet removed from his chest.
And please don't quote odds as justification for not carrying a more effective gun/caliber.
Yes- the odds of you never being in a life-threatening encounter at all during your entire existence are very much in your favor.
Which is exactly the same thing all those now-dead people thought leading right up the point where the wrong side of the odds killed 'em.
Same deal with seatbelts. Odds are highly in your favor of never getting into a car accident, too, so why bother with seatbelts? Ask all those now-dead victims ejected & killed during not-their-fault accidents about odds.
The video may have led the two commentators to draw their conclusions, my experiences have drawn me to mine.
And mine are very much not theirs.
Denis