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Anon meets his gf's parents (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The amount of training is kinda-sorta irrelevant. The amount of training you should be putting in is way higher than the amount you need to master the safety. But, the amount of training you need to put in is also high enough that you won’t ever have to rely on the saftey to prevent the gun from firing. So for me, if I can handle the gun without having to rely on a safety, that’s just one less thing that could go wrong and prevent me from firing my gun when I want to.

i guess so but i'd still just argue that you should be training with the safety, such that it's so second nature to you, it literally wouldn't matter whether it exists or not.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a reasonable opinion. The safety argument is one of those things that is right on the line, so quite a lot of people fall on either side.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i could see it go either way, but i really just don't think it's that significant to the point where it matters enough to bother with.

Unless you're using a competition pistol at a competition or something, in which case you could make the argument situationally and i would understand it, but generally, i'd much rather have a safety on my pistol than not, especially if conceal carrying for example.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

See I think that carrying is the exact scenario that warrants not having a safety, while I find it acceptable (even desirable) to have a safety on a range or hunting gun.

Opinions, opinions...

It's been nice chatting anyhow.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

yeah, matter of opinion i suppose, but personally, if i can't deholster my pistol and remove the safety in a quick enough time chances are i'm not going to be trained well enough to be able to properly utilize it at that point. It's all muscle memory at the end of the day, and if you don't regularly train for it, you can't use it when it needs to be used.

Likewise to you.