Interesting article. The comments, however, are more interesting. NRA certified instructors stating the 1911 doesn’t have a grip safety? NRA certified instructors stating an auto shouldn’t be carried with a round in the chamber, because it’s always unsafe that way?
The right answer is to live in a responsible society. No-one seems to realize that the point of the big government takeover is to achieve the exact opposite–to promote an irresponsible society. No amount of “gun training” is going to take someone who can’t think their way out of a wet paper bag and make the competent and vigilant. Our society is eating itself from the inside out.
Based on the reasoning I see here, you shouldn’t carry at all. If you think carrying without a round in the chamber is a “solution,” let me ask–what happens when you do “rack the slide” because you “feel threatened,” and then you don’t know how to handle the thing, because the round in the chamber makes you nervous? After all, you never carry that way, and you’ve always treated it like there’s not a round in the chamber. The only time a round is ever there is on the range, and they have a nice backstop for you to shoot at, and nice people to tell you when to shoot.
Or when you “rack the slide” while someone is slitting your throat? Oh, that’s right, concealed carry holders don’t need to draw quickly. You always have several minutes after a threat appears to “get ready.” “Hang on there, buddy, I’ll be with you in a minute on that wallet thing, I just have to get this slide to rack.” With your hands sweating and body going crazy, you’re falling back on fine motor skills to get in the fight.
Bottom line: Train the way you carry and fight. Treat the gun as loaded. And don’t expect a society that’s enamored of television, and filled with churches and schools that no longer teach people to think, to be a safe society, whether guns, cars, boats, or pens are involved. Stupid people do stupid things. You want to solve the problem with firearm training? You have to start by teaching people to think. And the government would then shut you down, because, after all, they don’t want you to think, just emote.
Russ
