I'm with Andy on this one. It's not like they're walking down Times Square. If I were in that neighborhood, I'd like to have a gun or assault rifle on me too.
There is not one defensive situation, where an eye catching huge ass semi-automatic rifle is to prefer over a handgun. You won't pull it in time, you will mark yourself as a target, you will scare the crap out of innocent ppl.
A machine pistol would be less dumb.
