Take this, cover me!

So heres the scenario...one which comes up a lot at my workplace as we have a handful of well armed gun nuts and a bevy of clueless sheep people:
In an urban unrest situation, where you may have to hunker down in place or run n gun to the nearest defensible position, you have two guns; one long, one short; and a trusted, but unarmed and untrained, coworker with you.
Do you (the trained, ex-SEAL, ninja warrior you are) keep the handgun, knowing that you will likely be more effective with it than your yuppie-scum lunchroom buddy, thereby giving him the more powerful, longer ranged weapon which he/she MIGHT actually hit with- or do you hand them the pistol/ revolver figuring that least they will make enough noise to keep the bad guys heads down while you eliminate them with the rifle.
Keeping in mind your "backup" probably has no idea how to reload or clear a jam in whichever gun you equip them with, would you go with simpler, jam-proof revolvers and bolt/ lever guns or high-cap semiautos?
What guns would you pick and who gets what?

bannockburn said:

NIGHTLORD40K

I think in your scenario you probably stand a better chance going for it on your own than entrusting one of your weapons to someone totally in the dark as to how to use it. That or you end up getting shot by your co-worker because they didn't know the gun was loaded!

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Danged if ya do, danged if ya don't......true. But when the hostiles are numerous and could approach from any direction, I think it would be useful to have a second set of eyes watching the back door- and you may not be able to leave your position to support him/her if danger is close on both fronts. Also, the baddies may think a little harder about pressing their attack if they are taking fire from multiple defenders. But yes, the Keep Both Guns Yourself answer does come up at work sometimes....
My own answer, and I shudder cuz there isn't a good one, is keep a wonder 9 pistol for myself as I am effective enough at city-fighting ranges with a pistol and hand my beloved 9mm carbine to the noob- large capacity so reloading is less of an issue, both guns can be fed from the same ammo supply, low recoil/ flash, and (with a red dot) even a total greenhorn has a chance of putting some rounds on target.
Some of the downsides (and there are many) to this approach would be neither of us would have much cover penetrating power or rooftop sniper/ counter-sniper capability.....

VThillman said:

[QUOTE="NIGHTLORD40K, post: 10630033, member: 229289]"yuppie-scum lunchroom buddy"

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Hah. Gotta keep both guns. That guy is no help. Scared crapless of both the situation and the gun? Worse than a hang fire.[/QUOTE]
I think it would depend, in part, on how incompetent the other party is in general. Our office girls, God bless them, would be worse than useless in a fight, so ya, I'd keep both guns. But our warranty administrator is a very professional, calm and detailed oriented middle-aged woman with two grown children who I doubt is afraid of much- l think I would take a chance on her to watch my six. Same could be said of our male coworkers: Some are worthless at their not-so-difficult jobs already, so no gun- but there are some others who I think would at least stay cool and do their best.