It is possible to be shot and not even realize it, or what happens when you miss? The light clack of a firearm chambered in 22LR isn't going to scare anyone. Dropping a book on the floor would be louder. Have you even shot a firearm before?
Using one chambered in .44 magnum as opposed to .50AE will obviously tame down the pistol quite a bit due to less power and the sheer mass of the gun. IMO they just aren't very reliable guns and you have to practice quite a bit before it can be shot decently due to its quirks. I personally wouldn't consider them much more than a novelty.
Where do you get your bullshit? A bb nor a .22 is going to drop someone cold, hell, even a 45 wont unless you hit them in the central nerveous system, ie, spine or brain. Also, a 9mm is not that good of a self defense round as they tend to go through people Larger calibers create bigger wounds. When picking a self defense round you need to be wary of over penetration, so you don't want a 230Gr 9mm because it will be so damn fast it will just pass through someone and possibly hit a bystandard.
The reason they are comparing salad forks and butter knives is because people like you are so stuck in a stupid belief that they have to use stupid comparisons with you. A butter knife, could kill someone IF it struck the right part of the body AND penetrated deeply enough. Replace butter knife with .22 and you'll get the point. a .22 is June Beaver's butter knife, a .45 is Rambo's knife. Is that easier for you to understand since you seem to be getting your information from make believe sources?
You were doing pretty well until here. A supersonic .22lr is loud. Not compared to a .40 or .45acp but in close quarters it will scare the piss out of some thug breaking in to your house. Shoot at them 5-6 times and they are most likely running even if you don't hit them.
I dunno, I guess we'll just have to disagree that a 22lr is or isn't loud. I do know that I can fire my Mark II with no hearing protection, and no ringing whatsoever in my ears, but any of my handguns with modest hearing protection will still do a bit of damage to my hearing.
The way I look at it is that if someone has broken into your house and you're having to use your gun, you're already at the worst-case-scenario. Might as well prepare for all reasonable facets of it...some of which are that the burglar could be packing, or on drugs, or huge, or used to gunfire from gang related gun battles, or all of the above. You never know and might as well have something that's going to give a better chance of keeping the intruder at bay when firing hasty and panicked shots into their (usually, I suspect) center mass.
thats the 9mm i keep in my ruger at home. i have one mag filled with those and 3 with fmj in it.
ive fired that single six too, they are loud. so is that .22LR HD semiauto pistol... cant remember who makes it, only saw it a couple times when a friend brought it to a shooting trip. fun little buggers tho, 6" barrel and resembled a 1911 frame. the HD one wasnt as loud, but im guessing thats due to the shell being covered by the receiver.
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