Some of that is WAY out of context. My point at Tac-Con was the realities of dealing with law enforcement and perception in a risk adverse world. I used two of my students, fellow instructor, and dear friends. Husband is large, white, very full bearded male. Wife, new mommy and much smaller statured. Take the EXACT same force scenario in their home in Dallas and a 15 year old not the same skin color as them burglar is in their living room. Parent moves from their room to the babies room across a hall and sees teen felon with a object in his hand. Same scenario. They use the guns they just shot in my class. Male shoots a single round from the semi automatic, camouflaged Benelli Super 90 with an extended magazine tube. Same scenario...Female shoots a single round from her magazine blocked wood and blue steel 28” barreled gun she uses for bird hunting. Reality is this, when the police brass get to that scen the risk adverse decision will be the male takes the ride. May not stay, may not get booked, but will take the ride and may get booked simply to pass the buck to a grand jury to dismiss. Pure politics decision and risk alleviation for the brass. Now, posed with arresting a female new mother protecting her child with a gigantic 2 shot bird hunting gun....in Texas....a police executive would be commuting career political suicide perp walking her to the car.
Is it right, moral and ethical....hell no. Do I condone it, hell no. Did I spend decades watching risk adverse police executives make decisions at shooting scenes. Yep.
My thing is always to seriously think through your articulation of your practices and gear selection and how that articulation would sound when applied to reasonable man standards and to a jury of the twelve people that the prosecution will want on a jury. This can also be regionally dependent. I have said often I tread VERY lightly in ban states and places hostile to gun owners and select gear appropriately.
Also, in regards to Tac Con, I use it as a place to test stuff in other folks arena. I shot the match this year with my travel snubs to give me a baseline comparison as to what I am giving up by actual numbers. The year before I went to the first shoot off with a Wilson CenTac that was being compared to a VP9 I shot the year before. This year I finished about the middle in a match that was not particularly neutral to the revolver. In all honesty, the reload stage dropped both Claude Werner and I A LOT in the rankings. Again, I have a very solid idea of what I am giving up to be legal.
I think I cover the why and how in the interview about why I carry a semi auto and a snub together.