Yes, it would certainly be unfortunate if I, a mediocre shot at best, but counting on adrenalin, could “bother” or distract the shooter with 18 shots. 18 shots that could give a classroom time to evacuate. 18 shots that could hold the shooter at bay until the experts show up. (this is not a dis of the cops...I live in a big county, I know how long it takes to get to the hinterlands).
Most of you will say “Well, for cripes sake, if ya can’t take ‘em out with 18, WTH are ya doing there?” I’m realistic about my skills. I know that, under pressure, I do what needs to be done. I also know that when “it”...whatever “it” is, is over, I fall apart. So I am realistic enough to say that I would hope that I would do the zipper and get the job done, I KNOW I could at least distract the shooter.
Why on earth should I not have a reasonable amount of ammo to change the outcome?
don’t worry about your acuracy I recall reading about an incident, cop on one side of car bad guy on other 7 feet away both emptied their guns over 20 rounds neither person hit...of course more ammo will help, first to run out of ammo gives the other guy time to relax a little, and squeeze the trigger...hopefully its it bad guy who runs out first, but we know silly magazine capacity laws are not going to stop him from carrying what he wants.