And I do also look forward to the often tossed bit o' 'Net wisdom like:
1. Keep you booger hook off the bang switch
So you're saying that the third rule of gun safety is just some silly idea hatched on the Internet?
2. The best safety is between your ears
So among all types of safeties, this is not even the best one, at the very least? You'd rather RELY on a mechanical device first as the best option?
Well, I guess you don't believe in prevention being better than any cure, either.
Yeah, you don't need no stinkin' safety-just observe the four rules of gun safety and everything will be just hunky dory...
until crap happens (and you
KNOW it will)!
And crap won't ever happen to those who use a manual safety first while showing disdain for rules that, if followed as a first priority, would in fact prevent virtually every accident?
Am I right that you do not own any revolvers out of fear that you might accidentally pull their triggers?
Nope-I just wish folks would lose the "guns don't need no stinkin' safety" attitude I see on the 'Net. One may or may not like 'em, but rather than dismiss 'em out of hand, it would behoove some to use that "safety between their ears" and decide if a particular safety suits them, and to compare the pros/cons of a particular design.
This sounds a lot more reasonable, but what exactly are you trying to counter here? Are people running around all over the Internet advocating that 1911s, for example, with their hair-triggers should not have manual safeties? Not that I have anything against this design at all, but I would require a manual safety for a 1911, while for me Glocks are fine without them. Others should, as you say, consider all the pros and cons of each design, but I have no idea where your mocking attitude is justified with regard to this issue. In your apparent quest to get people thinking more seriously about gun safety, you've said and/or implied some questionable things that you might not have realized, and against an argument that I don't think anybody here is making.
And I ain't talkin' internal safeties-all modern arms "should" have those-I'm talking external-grip, thumb, etc-stuff the operator has to manipulate in order to fire the gun.
Crap can happen with those, too, such as pulling the trigger in a justified attempt to preserve one's life, and getting no bang. I've seen this happen at the range not infrequently, but I'm sure that when one's life is actually in danger it could never possibly happen....
Basically, it's a tradeoff like most everything else.