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At the risk of being labeled paranoid and overly tacticool I respectfully submit the following.
Beyond mental awareness, the first issue in SD is having your firearm (and tools) with you. There is no doubt that the micro guns w/ pocket carry make that component much easier. As is often said, it beats a sharp stick. I freely admit I do not have a micro, or having a great deal of experience with the breed. I have carried a smaller lighter gun occasionally when there was just no way I could conceal a larger gun with on body carry. I have also carried smaller guns as a second (or third) gun when in uniform.
But I will use this phrase, from Clint Smith I think, to make my point "Comfort and convenience are poor measures for determining what type of handgun you carry for self defense". If you need a handgun to save your life or that of ones you love, you really need it. Correspondingly, you thus need a handgun that gives the best opportunity with which you can fight and win. By almost any measure, a larger handgun is easier to shoot well. Depending on model and caliber, a larger gun may be of bigger caliber and have a higher magazine capacity. More the better.
Understand, I would rather have you armed than unarmed. And pocket carry of a micro may be you only viable option given your circumstances at work or wherever. I get it. But look very carefully at your situation and why you carry the micro. My observation is that it is largely done by convenience. Wardrobe, weather and lifestyle could allow the carry of a larger, more capable firearm, but folks do not. It's a whole lot easier to drop the micro in your pocket and hope nothing happens.....'cause it usually
doesn't. But if it does.........
Another old mantr to close..."bring enough gun".