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Some good analogies here. The Glock is rather like the ubiquitous Honda civic. I also like the "flat revolver" concept. I personally find active safeties to be irritating and pointless. Passive safeties are so great as to a total necessity, but an active safety is admitting that you are not really safe enough with the gun on your own, or that the design is not safe enough to stand without the active safety. I just don't like em.
(I own exactly handguns that have active safeties, and two are just decocking levers that can be turned fully downward and will stay in that position, a la S&W auto. The third is not safe enough to stand without the safety, but I like it anyway, and wouldn't give the lil Buckmark up for anything)
Then again, I was raised with a revolver in my hand, and did not own, and had never fired, an auto-loader until I was in my mid-20's. I have a wheelgunner's mindset when it comes to guns, and that is "Keep your finger off the trigger, and you'll be just fine". Gun-handling 101, in other words.
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