Dredging up an exception does not disprove the rule, and as a rule, striker fired semi autos simply ARE more prone to a AD than a revolver. (what's next, you gonna tell me about your brother-in-law's over-tuned .357 that has a 1.5# trigger ?
)Again, no ****,Sherlock. Obviously, I (as nearly everyone on the planet routinely does) was speaking in relative,general terms, exceptions notwithstanding.
Once the pistol is securely in my pocket, i will often (but not necessarilly) click off the safety, and at the point I reach in to remove the pistol, I'll click the safety back on. So, what all that means is that for the vast majority of it's existence,(and all the related transporting and handling) the pistol is in safe mode.
That's the benefit. Obviously,no one is going to have an AD while a pistol is securely in a pocket holser, in their pocket. It's during all the other handling that the risk exists.
I don't need to cite statistics or studies,for what I've observed in media reports, over decades.
Why don't YOU go dig up some stats on how many uses of firearms in self-defense required a response so immediate that merely clicking off a safety was so much of a delay or hinderance, that the shooter was overcome and killed.
When compounded with the very low number of incidences requiring armed repsonse, I'm confident that any that required one that instantaneous are an even tinier fraction of SD events.
Wwwhat ??
.....no sources or stats to cite?? Obviously, there is typically a degree of quickness and closeness (since that's exactly what pistols were designed for), but I was clearly talking about cases SO close, and SO fast, that the 1/4-second act of sweeping your thumb along the safety takes too much time and trouble, resulting in the victim's demise.
Sure, it's probably happened, but still, statistically non-existent, I'd wager
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