We’ve all heard the expression used. Generally it’s when someone is insisting that you HAVE to carry a full sized handgun (preferably with a +5 mag extension), at least one spare mag, a backup gun, a fighting knife, and there’s usually some kind of gimmicky impact weapon in the mix too.
If these same people truly subscribed to this mantra, they’d be in peak physical condition, drive the safest vehicle as they could as little as possible, and live such risk averse lives that there’d be question as to whether they were actually alive or not!
The fact is that it’s both. Everything we do is a balancing act, making sure that we’re not taking undue risks, and the ones we do assume are calculated and mitigated as much as we realistically can.
Yes, given a choice I’ll always opt for my dotted G19 above anything else in the inventory, however there are circumstances where trying to cram that solution into the equation would be inappropriate or unrealistic.
Just as with “it works for me”, if there’s a clearly articulable reason for what you’re doing, and you’re taken an honest assessment of your needs and knowledge, skillset and abilities, then run with it. But don’t expect to be taken at face value just because it hasn’t failed for you YET.
