WrongHanded
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As you stated... Maybe not in this "society" (as in to walk around with every day) but when you feel threatened, yes, the rifle is the better (as in more effective at stopping the threat) defensive tool.
I understand all of what you said, but this is the important part in my eyes. Daily life for most of us is not in the military, no is it in a combat zone. If either were true, I wouldn't have made that statement.
But in normal every day life in the US, I think other firearms are more appropriate to self defense than a rifle. We can certainly come up with some scenarios, and some of those may be the same reasons I've started carrying rifles when I wander off into national forest and wilderness. But I'm keenly aware than in my everyday life, I won't have access to a rifle in a SD situation. To retrieve one and return could be considered less than "defensive".
Just my two cents of course.