[Glenn E. Meyer]

Those are excellent points. Lots of us had said that there was the statistical misinterpretation of the average as always happening and ignoring the extreme tail of the shots fired continuum. The point being that we had the single mugger be gone fight vs. the intense critical incident. It's been said before but we continually get folks who harp on the average and ignore the extremes, so JohnKSa reinforces that excellent point in his post.

Thus we get folks who carry:

1. Five is enough - but acknowledge they do it for convenience but accept the extreme risk as a downside of convenience.

2. The folks who carry a semi with a larger capacity and reloads.

3. The five is enough folks who don't understand the dynamics and mock those who carry more and say silly things like they are not competent to be in an intensive incident so why bother with more or if you can't do the job in five, you are blah, blah.