is complete drivel. If you hold in the cocker, release the safety or cock the hammer, the gun is cocked. Doesn't matter how it got there. You're not making any sense at all. Why should it matter if you have a cocked Sig, 1911 or P7 in your hand?
Again you are ignoring exactly how people use these weapons. With the Hk the gun is squeezed in a moment of crisis and the finger is invariably on the trigger and so too with the glock No matter how extensive the training. If this were not true then all of the people that were shot by police who the police did not even want to shoot would still be alive today. The most recent being a lawsuit were a girl was shot by the police. I just read about it in one of the gun rags that I got this month.
More than one person has posted that they have seen police running down the street to the seen of a crime with their fingers on the trigger of both Glocks and HK's and any other service arm that they happend to be carrying. Human nature is human nature, it does not change especially under extreme stress.
The point I am trying to make is a very simple one. People are going to inadvertently put their finger on the trigger if they fell threatend. Having your finger on the trigger of a single action with the hammer down or even with the safety on is one example. Another is having your finger on the trigger of a hard to pull double action only pistol or a double action, single action pistol.
The problem only becomes very dangerous with pistols like the HK squeeze cocker and the Glock where the finger on the trigger of the cocked weapon is way more dangerous than any of the above examples.
WE cannot ignore the mechanical differences of these pistols and we cannot claim that human nature will suddenly change because we like a particular type of handgun and therefore tend to ignore the reality of the mechanical aspects of the weapon and how it is used in real life, not the fantasy world of the firearms forums.
Seeing is believeing and when you have been around firearms as long as I have and seen how people actually use them in real life it is far different than reading about them in the gun rags or on the internet. As Murphy's law so plainly states, "anything that can happen will happen" and unfortunately this is all to true when it comes to firearms. Under stress the brain slows down no matter how intelligent a person is and no matter how much training one receives. Sure training helps but when it goes against the human nature for survival the training will fail every time and moral considerations also go right out the window.
Case in point. During WWII veterens that I knew personally told me that when under stress they shot anything that moved including civilians and even fellow soldiers that were of their own nationality. It was the survival instinct kicking in and those that shot first and asked questions later survived and those that did not sometimes did not survive. The same mentality is at work today just as it has been at work for thousands of years. It is very evident in police work where one mistake can mean the difference between you going home or the bad guy going home.
When you have a weapon that makes it too easy to pull the trigger before the brain takes over from the immediate physical and mental fight for survival the gun goes bang before the brain actually wanted it to. This is exactly why such things as the Glock New York trigger was developed, not as good as the long hard double action pull of the double action only or double action single action but still much better than the lighter original pull of the first generation Glock. Now, what does all this have to do with the HK ? Simply this , the HK does not even have any equivlent of the Glock New York trigger making it all the more dangerous of accidental discharge and the counter argument that the gun is safe until squeeze cocked ignores the reality that under the extreme stress of life or death the gun will be squeeze cocked , ready to fire with the finger on the trigger. Once again this is human nature and the fight for survival reaction that goes into lightening quick play under such circumstances.
To ignore all of this is to ignore human nature and reality.
