Your point is well taken...
These days, I’d prefer to carry an MP5, SBR or even my M1A around many places I have to go...
But the local gendarmes look askance at us peons sporting that much hardware...
So I tend to carry concealed...
“Under-gunned” is always a relative term...Like I said, to each his own...I’ll never tell you your choice is wrong; that’s for you to find out...Same with me...
LOL to your last post.
My personal carry preference would be a Remington 870 with a ten round tube, side saddle, a belt full of buckshot and a few rifled slugs, just in case. But that would be a carry piece in one of those imaginary worlds liberals inhabit where there are no tradeoffs and unicorns handle the farts.
For concealment in the real world I carry a baby Glock in .40 caliber. Not sure I’ll ever change. My baby and me have a long and mutually beneficial friendship.