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Old 09-07-2017, 07:40 PM
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Prevention of unintentional discharges due to potential mistakes in handling and reholstering are valid reasons for wanting a manual safety, but pointing to cases of gross negligence such as the above video is not IMO.

Along a somewhat similar line of thinking is wanting a manual safety in case you are disarmed and hoping the bad guy won't know how to operate the gun. For cops, there may be a degree of validity to the idea(although nearly all departments have now gone sans manual safeties after weighing the pros vs cons), but for civilians carrying concealed, it just isn't valid. If there is justification in drawing your weapon from concealment as in an assailant that you believe intends to do you harm is close enough to disarm you, then obviously the safety would be/should be off already.
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