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I'm glad to see the large number of very reasonable answers to this question.
Let's state, for the record, one thing which ought to be held to be incontrovertible, but isn't (for one reason or another): There is very little difference in performance in living beings between various service-pistol cartridges. What little differences do exist are, at best, academic.
Please read that carefully, before coming back with some argument about 10mm in comparison to .380ACP.
We can hypothesize based on performance in jello, rehashing of "fishing stories" (including those told by a Colonel in Arizona and taken as gospel by altogether too many people), mathematical calculations, and hare-brained conjecture; but these are mere hypotheses. They're theories.
Common sense (and experience) tells us that whether you're shot with a .38 or with a .45, you're just as dead if it hits some parts of you, and not dead if it hits other parts of you. Under the conditions under which one would actually use them, they're too comparable to distinguish one over others.
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