1) Dial 911 and die? Not me. I'll take care of it until they get there.
2) How else do you protect yourself, your family, and your friends?
3) Causes the bad guy to move on to the next unarmed liberal....errr...citizen. Sorry.
4) Where would we be today if the colonists weren't allowed to have guns back around 1770's?
5) Columbine? Luby's Restaurant? Xerox - Hawaii? Not me. Me and my .45ACP are going home.
Ditto your reasons.
I just bought a .45 ACP, a 1927 model based on the 1911, made for the Argentine Army on a Colt contract back in, I think, the 1930's. It works just fine.