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Glocks are not unsafe. They are an extremely safe design. At this point it's pretty much a proven fact.
But the SR series, M&P series, & other striker fired pistols are safer![]()
Oh no, it does matter. If everybody followed the 4 rules, a lot of people would still be alive today. Given enough time and opportunity people can fail at anything, especially following rules.
You already have multiple safeties in all your guns. Why do manufacturers use triggers with a substantial weight of pull (instead of, let me exaggerate, buttons)? - Because the trigger pull weight makes NEGLIGENT discharges less likely (even if at the expense of accuracy and rate of fire). Why do you have a trigger guard? - Because it protects the trigger from being pulled by something else. Neither the trigger pull weight nor the guard slow you down considerably because you practice with them. An external safety (invented centuries ago) is the same thing.
Now, your personal mileage may vary. If you clear Afghan villages for a living and do a lot of reactive shooting, then your odds of being too slow to disengage the safety are greater than your odds of having an unwanted discharge. In those circumstances, some soldiers remove/tape their safeties as they simply get in the way. I am a civilian in a relatively safe community, so a civilian safety standard (which includes the external safety and a field-stripping procedure that does not involve pulling the trigger) is more applicable to my case.
If there was a reliable, non-battery-operated biometric safety device that would prevent anyone from firing my pistols except the people I choose, I would use it.
This thread reads more like a religion.