Despite decades of hearing people claim the Israelis are so super superior and thus wanting to mimic certain things like carry .22 lr for defense (Mossad kills people with it all the time, right?) or carrying with an empty chamber (good enough for their Special Forces), but the empty chamber isn't a tactical advantage thing. As noted above, it is a safety thing, not because everybody that they have is superior in their skills, but because they are not.
I know it looks super cool and tactical to draw, charge, and fire really fast. All that hand movement is quite a show, until the show is a disaster like with the soldier in the video above. The soldier IS lucky somebody intervened. The Good Sam is lucky the soldier didn't kill him as well.
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I believe people have even shared manuals on this forum for the 1911 that show the pistol was to be carried without a round chambered until going into immediate action. In terms of preventing someone from hurting themselves or others inadvertently, not having a round chambered will make a difference.
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The US military goes as far as disarming its soldiers on base and those on guard duty used to (maybe still do) carry no ammo or very limited ammo here in the US.