[Another Galt]

I love the way Glocks shoot, very nice. But I would never carry a gun that did not have a safety (and do not claim that the silly little lever on the trigger is a safety).

Maybe they actually have a safety these days?

[Lizard_King]

I don't see how the trigger safety is a silly little lever. It guarantees that nothing short of intentionally pulling the trigger will cause it to discharge. Combine a Glock with a holster that covers the trigger area effectively, and you have a winning combination.

You know what I think is unsafe for carry? Those puny, mechanically irrational pins that people with DA triggers are so willing to stake their lives on. To my mind, if you learn on a Glock like I did, and exercise the most important safety of all (the brain), the Glock is the safest gun out there, bar none.

The safe action system has never been logically critiqued that I have heard beyond the irrational attachment to a needless and falsely comforting external safety. Ultimately, it comes down to a matter of taste, and there is a big chunk of the law enforcement and military community that agrees with me, so I don't think I am alone.

Making a Glock with a safety would undermine the beauty within its externally grotesque mechanism. I would never have bought one (because I too was a firm believer in external safeties) until a friend who is a gunsmith of no small talent explained to me in depth why the Glock mechanism is such a brilliant piece of work. 2000 rounds later, I cannot help but love it.