How very theatrical of you. Did you ever consider that your attacker may grab one of your arms, thus making it impossible to rack the slide of your pistol?
In the instant case, evidence is beginning to point to Zimmerman having been attacked from behind (i.e. no warning) and pretty much pinned to the ground while getting his head bashed against the sidewalk. IF these are the facts, then he's exceedingly lucky to have had a round chambered, because if he hadn't then he'd likely be the dead guy.
You don't want to carry with a round in the chamber, fine - that's your choice. But please don't tell the rest of us what to do. We also have good reasons for our choices. Maybe you'd have done better to ASK why people would carry with a round in the chamber if the NRA safety course says otherwise.
If I was out of the house and patrolling like Zimmerman, I would chamber a round and holster. When someone said that the magazine was full, then I thought that meant he had one in the chamber and a full magazine. I thought it was odd, but several posters say they store their weapon this way.
Honestly, I was beat up enough over this and I wish I had never posted my first post. I usually don’t get assaulted on Free Republic the way I did over this thread. It really doesn’t seem to be a great way to show how responsible we are as gun owners to be knocking each other around over little things, but I guess several don’t consider my post as little.
It really doesn’t matter. I did feel that I developed a nice post exchange with 101Airborne, and I learned some stuff. Still, if you read through some of the posts, some were rather insulting. I am not used to that here on FR, but then I don’t post much on the bang threads.