Katrina is a good example of a pistol being more useful than a long gun. When the authorities went house to house confiscating guns the only ones they didn’t get were the pistols in people’s pockets.
People who didn’t tell the cops and solders who searched their homes that they had a pistol in their pocket lost their long guns but not their pocket pistols.
"The people" should have exercised their second amendment rights at that point and dispatched the errant 'authorities'. The had no right, NO RIGHT to confiscate weapons from the general public. Period.
""...being necessary for the security of the FREE STATE, the Right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.""