Given law enforcement miss something like 6 out of 10 rounds fired and it takes on average takes 3 rounds to drop an assailant.. anything less than 9 rounds is saying you will perform better in a discharge situation than trained law enforcement.
You may be that good… but it’s a far cry from range shooting and actual live situation.
Any gun is better than no gun if you need one, but I personally wouldn’t choose to carry anything that holds at least 10 rounds
And yet most of us are not police. A majority of defensive shootings use three rounds or less.
There are studies showing the error in what you are saying but I am so sorry that I cannot find that data right now. I was trying to satisfy my own mind at the time I read it. It did not occur to me that I might like to show that to you. The short of it is that armed citizens shoot well and cops do NOT. Another fallacy is with handgun wound effectiveness. The first shot or occasionally the second causes adequate wounding but because it takes time for the effect there is time for additional superfluous shots. Rifle rounds faster than 2300 FPS work differently, but handgun rounds just cannot deliver that much energy. So if you have 17 shots then by all means use them, but if you have five use them. Please correct me with my thanks and remember that a gunfight is more fight than gun!
Cops often SUCK at disciplined shooting. This was a SWAT unit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUnEWYdPnI
71 shots fired in less than 7 seconds. IIRC, they put rounds thru 5 homes....