I guess I gave away my age and impression of the so called "Safety Devices" being insisted on by non shooters for firearms that they won't really use. Kind of like a Condom sales person in a Fertility clinic.
I see all these "Needed Features" for weapons designed to eliminate the mental lapses of the ill trained, and negligent shooters. Part of this is to make the uninterested public "Feel Good" about firearms. In a sense we are trying to convince people that "Guns are Not Dangerous". It's a mistake.
Jeff Cooper and Bill Jordan collaborated on a set of rules that are muscle based and Mind based. They are as follows.
1. Every Gun Is Always Loaded, unless you have checked it yourself and it has not left your physical control since you checked.
2. Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot.
3. Keep Booger Hook off of bang switch until sights are on target.
4. Be aware of what is in front of what you are shooting, and what is beyond it (So you know what happened when you miss)
And the last rule globally applies "If you don't know what you are doing, Don't Do It".
Each and every single negligent discharge of a weapon is finds it cause directly back to these rules. We need to accept that People Will Do Stupid Things and focus on training the adolescent mind instead of depending on "Safeties" and "Gun Identifiers" and a host of other Snow Flake Feel Goods (SFFGs) that will not improve safety but will prohibit the ownership adn use of the defensive tools we need in this marginal world.
I see all these "Needed Features" for weapons designed to eliminate the mental lapses of the ill trained, and negligent shooters. Part of this is to make the uninterested public "Feel Good" about firearms. In a sense we are trying to convince people that "Guns are Not Dangerous". It's a mistake.
Jeff Cooper and Bill Jordan collaborated on a set of rules that are muscle based and Mind based. They are as follows.
1. Every Gun Is Always Loaded, unless you have checked it yourself and it has not left your physical control since you checked.
2. Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot.
3. Keep Booger Hook off of bang switch until sights are on target.
4. Be aware of what is in front of what you are shooting, and what is beyond it (So you know what happened when you miss)
And the last rule globally applies "If you don't know what you are doing, Don't Do It".
Each and every single negligent discharge of a weapon is finds it cause directly back to these rules. We need to accept that People Will Do Stupid Things and focus on training the adolescent mind instead of depending on "Safeties" and "Gun Identifiers" and a host of other Snow Flake Feel Goods (SFFGs) that will not improve safety but will prohibit the ownership adn use of the defensive tools we need in this marginal world.
