Best weapon for Concealed Carry advise

agree, thank you sublime one

so I simply need to become a Martin Riggs/Matt Dillon hybrid then?
Hah! No more complex than that! As the current residing State Champion with single action (gunfighter class) pistols I would lean towards Matt Dillion! The biggest thing is to recognize is that shooting is a perishable skillset. You don’t train regularly your proficiency drops accordingly. One of my favorite exercises to put students thru at end of a class is to set up a steel target flanked closely by paper targets on each side. I then have the students shoot from and maintain cover while shooting at the target, run to next barricade and rinse and repeat all the while closing the distance on steel target in oblique. I begin the exercise with only one shot at the farthest point then as distance reduces, shooter has to ring steel to advance to next barricade. They engage from both sides. It replicates many bad guy scenarios. The aforementioned church shooting as well. Once we terminate exercise the student approaches the steel target and witnesses the hits on the paper “bystander” targets. As the shooter, you are personally, financially, and morally accountable for every single round you discharge. This exercise proves out the theory sometimes your best option is not shooting. Folks often times have a very different perception of their skill set than the targets reveal. I was doing a church training one time for a church security detail and the Pastor attended. He asked each student to name a parishioner then had me write that name on bystander targets. I protested it kind of weirded me out, as I knew how it was going to turn out but he insisted? It was very quiet and somber when exercise was done. But drove home emphatically the fact folks need to practice if they are going to carry. Ok it is official I took the thread in the ditch! My apologies, carry on.