Without an adequate knowledge of its use, there can be few things so purposeless and dangerous as a pistol. Adequate knowledge comes only from competent instruction. If you have never received such instruction and are not prepared to do so, do not buy a pistol, or if you own one already, surrender it to the police.
These are not my words. Here is another quote from the same source.
(The author has a) ...dislike of the profusion of safety devices with which all automatic pistols are regularly equipped. ... It is better...to make the pistol permanently "unsafe" and then to devise such methods of handling it that there will be no accidents.
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