No. I wouldn't.
Janet Reno used to be a State's Attorney down in Florida, so don't make the mistake of thinking that because you live down south EVERYONE thinks as you do.
Prosecutors are lawyers, and where to the prosecutor's offices recruit from...law schools.
They like to have top notch people just like everyone else, and many of the schools they recruit from, UCLA, Yale, Harvard, Suffolk, NYU, Pace...aren't knows for ardent support of the right to bear arms.
The guy who reviews your file and makes the decission to prosecute you may be 3 years out of law school, hasn't even hit 30 yet, isn't acclimated or acultured to your location and thinks of guns in very limited catagories such as:
1) Cops carry them;
2) I prosecute people who carry them without permit;
3) Guns & drugs = Refer file to the federal prosecutor so I can clear my caseload;
4) To get this job as a prosecutor they made me shoot one and issued me a permit to carry one, but I'll worry about that when I get assigned to prosecute someone important...;
5) I think you can't hunt on Sunday around here, but I'm not sure because I don't hunt...but I read it in a statute book that posession of a shotgun in a field on a Sunday was a $500 fine & a class D Felony. Or something...but I don't care;
6) People shoot other people with them, and then I try to put a needle in the shooter's arm...
Just because a person works for the prosecutor's office in X-county, Southern State it doesn't mean squat.
For all you know he could be a Pace University School of Law graduate and a hardcore Obama supporter who doesn't like guns, believes very strongly in the collective rights theory of the second amendment (as he learned in law school and it was on the bar exam...) and believes that people who shoot other people should be prosecuted...and if they can prove self defense, well, that's what defense attorneys are for.
I would not make plans on the assumption things will break my way.
I'm suggesting that you give up on trying to make carrying hand loads for self defense sound reasonable. It is not.
It is as reasonable and smart assuming that simply because you are living it the south it is a good idea to start talking to the police after a use of force incident without asserting your right to counsel, because the cops are 'on your side'.
You can keep making all the argumets you want for carrying reloads. If that is what floats your boat, go ahead.
You decide for you.
For everyone else, make an informed decission that isn't based on a desperate adherence to an ignorant idea rooted in the deep seated (and likely mistaken) belief that "I live some place that is different!!!" with all the attendant foot stomping.