That's a good one, Glenn. I hadn't seen that before, thanks for sharing.
There's three of these similar instances happening that I'm aware of....the one you mentioned, the one mentioned my @
TC215, and there's also the NCIS Special Agent at the DC Navy Yard shooting. For anyone unfamiliar, and NCIS agent went in with his SIG P239 and no reload. We are lucky to have him on "our" side and his actions undoubtedly saved lives as he provided space and time for victims to flee, but in the end he had to go outside and hand-jam his mag with boxed ammo to go back in as he failed to neutralize the threat. While most active shooters give up at the first presence of resistance, some don't.....and you don't need to be in Mumbai or Nairobi to find out.
Now, some people say, "Well they're LEOs, it doesn't apply". The Lucky Gunner article mentioned by @
JCS goes a step further, and not only says that we "cherry pick" from LEOs, but that the criminals we face as LEOs are different than the criminals faced by armed citizens...which is bull that we've addressed on the forum before. If we ignored the experiences of LEOs acting in a minimally armed, off-duty capacity,
that would actually be applying preference/bias as opposed to including them in the discussion...
not the other way around.
Off-duty, I'm mostly carrying a Glock 19 with a reload. Sometimes a Glock 26, or even as light as a single stack subcompact 380 or revolver, like when going for a walk in our neighborhood. Anyone can feel free to piss on my grave if I bite the dust because I didn't have enough reloads but what I'm not going to engage in is mental gymnastics to rationalize insecurity surrounding my decision, or mask my insecurity by calling anyone here paranoid because they are objectively more prepared than I am.