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Though I'm not going to say this guy is telling the truth, don't be so quick to write off the part about the shells. A lot of people who only shoot on the range or shoot skeet load their shells in a very unhurried situation, in full light with no stress at all. This guy may have seen himself (as he says we do) as a hero in his own personal action movie and just figured he'd know what to do when the time came. then he "trained" for a situation where there was no threat and no hurry.

The way you train makes a vast difference in how you act in an emergency. For years, police and other shooters have heard that these CHP officers died because they were policing up their brass during the firefight, just as they had done on the range. It turns out that may not be true, but the fact that people with hundreds of hours of range time and maybe even a firefight or two under their belt saw how that could have happened and changed their training methods tells us something about range vs. real life. That something is apparently beyond the now-defenseless PhD candidate who thinks he's heroically brave because he is leaving the woman who depends on him defenseless and announcing it to the world.

Technically he sounds like someone who watched a pump being loaded, but never loaded one himself.
Just my opinion.
He also sounds like an anti-gun dweeb who is trying to convince people, who don't own guns, not to buy any.
This crap article is not meant for people who do own guns.
Just my opinion again.