1. I don't know what you are talking about. I said seconds count. I also said I care more about completely eliminating the possibility of an accidental discharge. You then brought up seconds counting again. ???
TheVrolok was basically saying that you wouldn't have time to rack the slide when shit hits the fan. It seems to me that you were saying that the time that it takes to rack the slide is negligable, which is why I said that every second counts.
2. Yes, I rack my slide immediately before I fire and shoot slightly quicker than a once per second pace, 3-5 shot bursts.
And like I said, there's a reason why law enforcement doesn't train this way, it's slow and could really cause you some problems in the heat of the moment.
3-4. Now you just plain aren't reading anything I write. I'm not a cop and I never contested that in their situation they should carry with a round in the chamber. I can shoot just as fluid racking the slide as you can without, it just takes me slightly longer. If you'd like to have a contest drop by Austin anytime.
I read what you wrote, you're not comprehending what I'm saying. The reason that I keep coming back to the way that police train is because they're the experts and they've spent countless hours analyzing this stuff. I was a cop and they went over this stuff at the academy.
Obviously it's gonna take you slightly longer, which is the whole point. It's also NOT as fluid as simply drawing your weapon, acquiring your target, and firing. It's one fluid movement to draw your weapon with your right hand and bring your left hand up to your right hand as you're acquiring your target. Your hands come together in the middle of your body as you're bringing your gun up. If you throw racking the slide in there then you have to either bring your hand up above the weapon to rack the slide then bring it back down to the handle of the weapon, or you'd have to turn the gun sideways while you're drawing it to rack the slide, then turn it back up and bring your left hand back to the gun, kind of like a "tap rack ready" drill.
It's not nearly as fluid, that's not even debatable.