He was not packing a gun, but this article is a good reason to carry a gun in some neighborhoods and to know how to use it.
He might have needed a large magazine, as it sounded like quite a few teenage hoodlums attacked him.
I’m not so sure you need to carry with a large capacity (unless that is your prerogative). One or two .357s to the closest perp and the rest of the cowards will run.
You usually only have to,drop one.
I think of my late friend in Chicago who carried his best friends, Smith and Wesson, as he called it, whenever he left the house.
He was parked outside a grocery while his wife shopped and about a half dozen of Obamas would be sons approached the car half way surrounding it. One reached for the car door.
My friend simply pulled his jacket back to reveal his “friends” and as he moved his hand toward it, the young men took off running.