It has a lot to do with it, I.e: brings the rifle down a peg
How does bringing the rifle down a peg have anything to do with your question? Seriously. Maybe that is your new thing you want to do for some reason, but it is hardly a retort to the answer given.
If its a real world situation where a bad guy is wearing armor capable of stopping pistols, then same guy can be wearing stuff to stop a rifle.
Certainly no one ever said otherwise. But again that is not a retort to the fact that a rifle will defeat armor that a handgun wont. It doesn't mean in any way that defeating other types of armor is not a capability that rifles have over pistol cartridges.
I didn't even bring up armor, you did.
Yeah, to directly answer a question you asked. Armor was one of a number of answers given that you chose to focus on and
So if a dude is wearing stuff that stops BOTH, the rifle caliber gun does nothing that PCC can't.
Right, but do you not understand that this does not mean that it is untrue that there are types of armor that the rifle will defeat that the pistol wont and thus that is something they do that a pistol wont and that you asked not "is a rifle better in every single situation," but rather, what in combat can a rifle do that pistol calibers wont do. Again its two totally different discussions. You have jumped rails, apparently when you didn't like the answer. It is not true that the rifle has to be more effective in every scenario imaginable for it to have real world capabilities and advantages in some scenarios. I get your point that there are situations where either could be equally effective or equally ineffective. It is simply not the case that those situations and that fact means there are no situations where one does something the other can't or does it much better.
There's your relation, relativity, reality, so forth and etcetera (sic). You're telling me someone can stop a pistol round with armor, and its been done to a rifle as well. So, not to quote you too closely, but duh.
I'm telling you exactly what you asked, what is a capability that a rifle has that pistol caliber gun doesn't. It can defeat certain types of armor. Nothing you have said has refuted that it any way. It has merely been discussion of a a different and very tangentially related new point you've brought up.
In essence your logic is is the same as the following:
A: 308 AP round has no combat abilities that a pellet gun doesn't. What can a .308 round do that a pellet can't
Here's how the argument develops.
B: a 308 with AP bullets can do the following that a pellet cant: A, B, C, D, E, and F--it can defeat barriers that would easily stop a pellet. In fact a layer or two of carpet will stop a pellet but is no match for an AP 308 round.
Now A responds ignoring all other points besides the one about barriers.
A: Yeah but, ceramic plates can stop 308. Thus it is no more capable than pellet in any situation and can't do anything the pellet can't period because it is equally ineffective if one wears ceramic plates.
Do you see how that argument doesn't work and thus doesn't refute the answer I gave you?
Perhaps another example will help.
Example:
A: What can a 250cc motorcylce do in daily commuting that a 90 cc scooter can't?
B: Go 80 MPH on the free way.
A: But on that little 250cc would be hard pressed to do much more than 100-110 MPH and there are roads in the world where one can travel faster than 110 MPH.
Again great, what does that have to do with the initial question. How does A's response disprove or refute B's answer to his question? It doesn't.
So, you haven't answered the initial question: what can the rifle do, that the PCC can't!
Do you still think this?
If a rilfe can defeat a soft vest and a pistol caliber cannot, then yes I have. That is true whether neither or both can defeat a vest. My statement was not that a rifle can defeat every type of armor on earth while a pistol caliber cannot.
If you honestly cannot see the what is incorrect about your final assertion "So, you haven't answered the initial question: what can the rifle do, that the PCC can't!" and the contentions you have used in making it. I don't think I am capable of explaining it to you or that there is much point in discussing it further.