Best handgun for home protection?

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Originally Posted by Sieg

That's where the big problem is for me. I'm not sure how the statistics would play out for the number of drug dealers per capita in the UK vs. US but there are way too many in our community for me to be comfortable without effective defense measures.

If everyone would play by the rules it would be easy........

I dont know either but its more of a public perception about drug use and gun crime that its on every street corner when it isn't . Generally druggies shoot druggies and i cannot recalled an incident of a drug addict entering a strangers house and shooting them , its more likely to be a family member . We have had a couple of cases of homeowners shooting unarmed burglers and have gone to prison for it , the public have been on the side of the homeowner . We are told that using reasonable force is ok in dealing with burglars but shooting one in the back is not , the public view is slightly more right wing but not much . The murder rate over here is about 1 per 100,000 and most of them are carried out by those known to the victim ,like a spouse . friend or family member . Gun killings here are less than 1 per 1,000,000 and how that compare's to the US i don't know but with those kind of figures arming myself isn't foremost in my mind . Drugs are the real problem here as with anywhere nowadays just look at Mexico , remove drugs and crime could be halved .But i do find guns creepy , just a euro liberal i guess . Pete