Even fired from across the street a .22 Short in the eye will make you stop and check your heart rate.....
Gun fire sounds off and you can't figure where it came from, do a Jessie Owens.
Most real "mu safety is between my ears" operators know that a 380 can't shoot through a tee shirt, and are cheap plastic guns for the most part. So why not just stick your pinky in the barrel and let it blow up in the guys hand.
As Homer Simpson said..."He who laughs last...laughs dead". A .380 with any of today's defense cartridges is better than what it used to be. Bullet technology has drastically turned mediocre defense calibers into something you can bet your life on, in small packages that folks will actually carry and not leave at home.
35 years of police work...seen a guy run 100 yards after taking a direct load of 00 buck in center chest. Seen a guy hit 4 times in chest with a 10MM sitting on curb waiting for rescue..lived no sweat. Then people hit once with 380s and 22s who were dead right there...DRT...It's all where you put em and thats a fact
So, if you were on the wrong end of a pistol and you recognized that the pistol is a .380, would you laugh and go ahead and proceed to attack the person?