2.8% of an already rare event is technically non-imaginary, but also definitely rounds down to imaginary.
[edit] on top of that, is it even a one-digit percentage of that 2.8% of a rare event in which having a round chambered made any difference? Yet there are people confidently posting as if it’d be absurd to carry without a round chambered. That’s plainly nuts.
From his point of view his life would have been threatened (he might not be alive today!) had he not presented his firearm.
Personally I believe it's a good feature if a guy has to give it a think for 1-2 seconds before blowing away the guy in front of him in the line at Whataburger.
The fact that the chance of a well-maintained home burning down is vanishingly small doesn’t make this an imaginary risk.
Thinking about how to protect yourself from violent crime and deciding to purchase and carry a gun doesn’t seem fundamentally different.