I don’t want to get in a gun fight. The object of that game is not to get shot, it isn’t to stand there and swap rounds. If I haven’t gotten myself out of trouble in 5 to 8 rounds I don’t suspect 8 more or 16 more is going to make a difference. Depending on the situation I’m either in defensive mode or offensive, offense is a completely different situation.
And while you’re swapping rounds with the bad guy and the cops come in and only see you shooting and not the bad guy, guess what ...
“If I haven’t gotten myself out of trouble in 5 to 8 rounds I don’t suspect 8 more or 16 more is going to make a difference.”
George Adamson, whose wife became famous when she wrote Born Free, had to hunt man-eating lions a number of times. He used a double barrel rifle. He was asked how he did it. IIRC, his reply was, “Wait until 10 yards. Don’t miss.”
I suspect a lot of cops have shot a lot of rounds because they could instead of because they needed them. This is a video of a highly trained SWAT team putting 71 rounds out, putting bullets into 5 houses...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUnEWYdPnI
The family was eventually paid $3 million, IIRC.