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Thanks for your comments and insight. I hadn’t really considered how frustrating and inconvenient such safety features could be. I was all caught up in that “dead 20 year old girl” thing. My bad.

As has been said in many treatises on firearms and in firearms handling courses "the primary safety is between your ears." The beauty of the rules of safe firearms handling is that you can apply them to any make of firearm, old, new or yet-invented, whether you have ever seen that model before, and you can either safely unload it or determine that you need additional information on its operation and set it down where it will be safe until then. If you diligently follow those rules you can handle any firearm safely.

Added safety features on guns can be useful but they can lead even experienced firearms enthusiasts into a false sense of security and away from reliance on the "primary" safety. For the inexperienced who don't know the basic rules of safety (who shouldn't be handling guns but do) added mechanical features just introduce added possibilities for confusion and distraction.