I'm a good shot. Don't need a gun that shoots 15 or 20 times before you reload. Why carry if you can't hit your mark with the first shot. Secondly I don't plan to fight multiple guys like it is done in Hollywood.
I took a robbery report from a teenager, who was walking home, southbound, from his job, at a Kroger store, where we often shopped for groceries. He noticed a Chevrolet Suburban pass him, at slow speed. This gave him an uneasy feeling, so, he decided to detour to a wider, parallel, north-south street, with better lighting. He reached the east-west street, on which he lived, which was also a well-lit street. He crossed in front of a convenience store, where I had often stopped for small items. As he reached bus shelter, near this convenience store, he realized that he was being followed, by several teens, who were on foot. As he neared the next cross street, what appeared to be that same Suburban suddenly appeared. To make a long story short, he was soon be fired upon, by a shotgun, from the Suburban, to his east, and by at least one 9mm pistol, being used by the friendly teen pedestrians to his west. This was not Hollywood, but a “nice” part of Houston, Texas, a neighborhood I patrolled at night, and where I had sometimes walked our largest dog.
Again, not Hollywood, and, not in a movie. It was in what I saw as MY neighborhood. (We had moved, shortly before this incident, but not far away, and my father-in-law was still living in that neighborhood.) It happened to one of the very nice stock boys who worked where we shopped for groceries.
I am not saying that this means that one must carry a pistol that shoots 15 or 20 times. The complainant, in the above story, survived my turning into a private driveway of an ice machine company, going over a quite high gate, running to the rear of the premises, climbing an amazing high fence, and dropping into a fenced residential backyard. His attackers did not follow, past that first gate. Yes, his attackers survived, too, even though the shotgun guy, inside the Suburban, and the pedestrians, who had one or more 9mm pistols, were shooting toward each other.
I collected empty 9mm cases, as evidence. This happened.
Notably, this event did not prompt me to change my personal-time carry armament. This occurred when when I was regularly carrying a 2.25” .357 SP101 revolver, plus another revolver, during personal time. The second revolver would have often been a second 2.25” .357 SP101, or a 4” GP100. Or, I may have had my 4” Speed Six, by then. (My mandated duty pistol, at that time, had to be one of four wide-body .40 autos, so it was a G22, when this incident happened. I switched to a P229R primary duty pistol in 2004. Some time in the 2006 to 2008 time frame, I finally started dressing around a non-railed P229, during personal time.)
I used to tell folks, starting in the late Nineties, that my “primary” handgun, 24/7/365, was an SP101.
Whether the SP101 was in an Alessi ankle rig, while in police uniform, or in a belt holster during personal time, I always carried an SP101, plus another gun, which made the SP101 “primary.” Notably, my hands are long, but not wide, and I have skinny fingers, so there is a place on the SP101 factory grip for my pinkie finger, and the “heel” of the grip just reaches the “heel bone” area of my hand, so, an SP101 behaves much like a duty/service handgun, for me, while firing it. I do, of course, appreciate a larger revolver, if I have to speed-load it, as the larger weapon provides more “work space,” for faster and more-expedient speed-loading.