Look, this isnt rocket science. If the gun comes with a safety, use it, or dont, depending on what it is and what its on and how you feel about it (ie, I use the safeties on DA guns to decock, and then leave them off). And if it doesnt have one, understand what that means and act appropriately. And that last part applies to the guns with safeties as well.
I just dont see what all the hand wringing is about and the insistence by some, that people (assuming there is some basic competency there) cant safely handle a gun without an added manual safety and are going to kill the world with unintended discharges every time it comes out.
Looking at it from the other side, people who dont seem to have an issue with safely using guns without added safeties, have to wonder what those that insist on having them, are doing in their handling, that the gun is so scary, that they feel they cant safely handle it without the added safety.
It really isnt a criticism, its just a wondering, thats all. But if you question, the war starts.
From my experience, I reholster any of the guns I have and use basically the same way. Hesitantly, with attention. Ive done that so many times now, to the point that I really dont have to look at it while I do it, but I still do every time I can. As Ive said before, if you cant do that safely without thinking about it, you havent done it enough in practice. Simple as that.
If the gun has a thumb safety, I put it on just prior to reholstering. If it has a decocker, I decock as soon as the gun goes to low ready, every time, even if Im not going to reholster. That DA trigger has its own set of rules and if any of them have a higher risk of going off by "being touched", its them, so thats the drill there, or at least my drill. No manual safety, index the trigger finger to its staging point, guard the trigger and reholster the same as the others. Hesitantly, with attention.
This has worked well for me over the years, YMMV. Do what works best for you. And hopefully, practice it to the point of thoughtlessness.
Homers constant griping about LAPD's failure rates tells me they either need to upgrade their training, or upgrade the quality of their officers or both. Seems something is wrong there. But, if those numbers scare you, then its a scary thing. Kind of reminds me of the covid numbers.