But on the other end of the spectrum, we shouldn't necessarily be steering these folks towards the tiny, diminutive micro-mouse-guns either. Guns the size of an LCP or P3AT, for example, are specialty guns made for a specialized purpose. Their physical size, extremely short sight radius, and high power to weight ratio not only make them hard to train adequately with, but also makes them difficult to fight with, which is what we MUST be able to do with any defensive gun.

For the vast majority of people, the ideal EDC is going to fall somewhere between "hog leg" and "mouse gun".