I almost hate to admit this, but I've read so many accounts of police officers suffering permanent hearing damage from shooting indoors that I went from a .357 magnum revolver to a .45 Colt to a .40 S&W semi-auto as a bedside gun.

There's NO WAY I'd have it together enough to put on hearing protection.

I'd also have to be in some pretty damn serious danger to shoot anyone. Last article I read (Ayoob) about a "good" self-defense shooting, the good guy, though exonerated in civil & criminal courts, was still out $60,000 in court costs. I might still be alive, but I'd eventually die miserable and broke.

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