azrocks
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You just have to realize that striker-fired pistols like Glocks, while very accurate and reliable, are much more dangerous and require a great deal more care than pistols that have good safeties.
People can always say you'll be fine if you keep your finger off of the trigger, and they'll be half right. You have to keep anything from touching the trigger. Just as with the 659. Some of the newer striker fired guns do have side-mounted safeties and they're fine. But if I had an older Glock with a safety on the trigger, I certainly wouldn't carry it with a chambered round. Others may disagree, but as Clint Eastwood said, "A man's gotta know his limitations!"
I'd argue that if you carry or store your handgun in a manner that would allow the trigger to come into contact with an object capable of pulling it through its full range of motion (or even touching it, for that matter), then you're doing things wrong from the start. So if you keep your finger off the trigger AND carry it properly, that pretty much takes care of the entire issue, not just 1/2 of it. There's no reason to be fearful of a handgun in a quality holster.
Manual safeties require user manipulation, which means one likely failure is forgetting to engage the safety (the other is forgetting to disengage it). External safeties are not auto-magical, which means that the same training and practice that's required to engage & disengage them as required, could be applied instead to learning to use a striker-fired gun safely.
I've personally witnessed NDs that were the direct result of people being sloppy with gun-handling because they had 'the safety on' (or rather, they thought they did). I was always taught as a kid to never trust the safety, and that teaching has served me well. I really see no functional difference between handguns with external safeties versus those that don't, because I treat them all the same. If anything, I believe the lack of a manual safety on at least some of the guns I've owned has caused me to become more vigilant regarding safe handling practices.
Besides, Cyrus doesn't need no safety! Why should I?
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