(Yes, there are one or two specific instances involving backup guns where the victims were knowingly marked for death by violent gangs and were saved by having backup guns stashed around their places of business, but beyond those extreme cases finding instances of the need for a backup gun in the private sector is virtually impossible.
...If you're carrying a backup gun you not only need to practice with that gun, but you also need to practice a variety of implementations: employing it because your other gun is gone, because you're injured, or as an alternative to your primary because of access issues.
...To use the backup as a preference to a reload, then, is simply going to take more of your limited training and practice time; without it, your response is likely to be less efficient than the reload/malfunction clearance would have been, if for no other reason than it's easier to practice.
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