Note to mods: not sure if this is the most suitable forum for this topic so please move if needed.
As a civilian I (wrongly or rightly) make a distinction between a handgun intended for comfortable, easily-concealable everyday carry (in my case, a 9mm PPS in a Comp-Tac IWB holster) and a “more capable” handgun I would prefer to be wearing if the S truly HTF and a long gun was not available. A G17C with an APL and Heine night sights in a JM Custom OWB holster constitutes what I would consider a “combat handgun” (along with a double mag carrier on the weak side) that at least on a square range, substantially extends the distance of fast, accurate fire over the Walther but at the obvious expense of weight, comfort and ease-of-concealment.
Tinfoil hats and doomsday scenarios aside, if I suspected I had a greater-than-normal chance of running into serious chaos outside the home (and for the purpose of this discussion, ignoring common sense that it would be better to stay home under such circumstances) and overtly carrying a long gun was not an option, the higher capacity, faster-shooting Glock is what I would want to be packing.
So, the intended topic for discussion: do you have one rig that you wear all the time that is optimized to strike a balance between comfortable/concealable carry and maximum effectiveness/capability, OR do you carry a smaller, more comfortable/concealable (but still reasonably capable) gun regularly but have a larger/higher capacity/more-capable handgun set up to CC for certain situations? Is such a distinction even relevant to civilian CC?
TIA for sharing your thoughts.