yes you cannot find a place to shoot it in the city but the ammunition is cheap and I would love to have a ruger 10/22 in my home at my disposal (as it is right now) if somebody came to the door who wanted to do me harm. Imagine if you can shoot a squirrel at 40 yrds in the head.....I could imagine it could easily pin down perps from the same or greater distance.
When I was a cop I knew a guy in Harlem (street name - Champ) who was hit seven times with slugs from a .22 revolver. He took the gun away from the guy who shot him and nearly beat him to death.