If you spend precious training and practice resources on skills that only work when you have a platoon of similarly armed and motivated protectors (as well as the presence of close air cover), those are resources you can't spend on developing and honing the skills you need to respond the guy with the knife in the convenience store parking lot.
The same is true for the gear you carry: if you're preparing for Armageddon by carrying a whole bunch of magazines on your belt (and have more in your trunk), despite the fact that it's darned hard to find private sector defensive shootings where reloading even one time was a necessity, that's energy, space (and money) which may be better used for other things.
...Just make sure that the skills you're learning (and the gear you're buying and carrying) really reflect the reality of where you live and work, and don't neglect the other dangers to your life by spending too much time, energy, and money on stuff that isn't plausible.
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