Out of curiosity how many hours/courses of self defensive training with a firearm have you had?
I am not the one telling people who should and should not own a gun. I believe in the constitution...
You casually avoided all of my points, and asked an irrelevant question.
So the only reason you are carrying is to protect you from one person or two people mugging you? But if there are 4 muggers, or it's a shootout you are in middle of, or a terrorist attack etc... you don't care to be prepared?
I'm not saying everyone needs 17 bullets, I'm saying all things equal someone who has 17 is better off than someone with 8 in many cases. Not sure how you can argue with that.