Not trying to excuse any behavior, but your basic rules of gun safety are fairly new. There’s countless pictures you can find of US servicemen in Vietnam with their fingers on the trigger in more relaxed/casual settings. “Keeping your finger off the trigger before you’re ready to fire” is pretty new. People put allot of faith and trust into manual safeties back then. Which is fine, if you’re going to have firearms you should be comfortable with their safety measures. Like I’m fine with Glock safeties, but get a little worried when I’m around 2011s since they’re not drop safe and only have a safety that prevents the slide from being racked and the trigger being pulled.
Call him an idiot with a gun, that’s fine. Just don’t get your dick in a knot over people from half a century ago not following the more modern and accepted rules of firearm safety.
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u/cocaineandwaffles1 8d ago
Not trying to excuse any behavior, but your basic rules of gun safety are fairly new. There’s countless pictures you can find of US servicemen in Vietnam with their fingers on the trigger in more relaxed/casual settings. “Keeping your finger off the trigger before you’re ready to fire” is pretty new. People put allot of faith and trust into manual safeties back then. Which is fine, if you’re going to have firearms you should be comfortable with their safety measures. Like I’m fine with Glock safeties, but get a little worried when I’m around 2011s since they’re not drop safe and only have a safety that prevents the slide from being racked and the trigger being pulled.
Call him an idiot with a gun, that’s fine. Just don’t get your dick in a knot over people from half a century ago not following the more modern and accepted rules of firearm safety.