tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post76400165369720828..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Friday FrivolitiesFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-9928508305457375132016-04-29T13:54:58.922-04:002016-04-29T13:54:58.922-04:001. I love dogs. Last one that lived with us was ...1. I love dogs. Last one that lived with us was a golden springer, buried him 20 years ago. Taken us this long to get over losing him. We all love dogs, but no one in our family hugs dogs. We do hug people. I resent people who think dogs are people, or better than people.<br />2. Dystopic, I think I need to visit your blog more often. My dream? I want a little 10 acre sheep farm on the west coast of New Zealand, with a 30 ft sailboat and dock. A small 4-room house (one room for my ham radio shack) and I want to sail around New Zealand once every year. It’s actually not difficult to realize that dream, except I’ve waited too long…<br />3. I’m a writer, not an author. I enjoy writing science fiction. I don’t think I even want to get involved in the bloody pageantry of publishing anything.<br />4. The American workplace has lost some things. One I would put way high on the list is “craftsmanship.” Fran, I think your proper response is proper. (about meternity…ha!)<br />5. I have a Glock 26, gen4… I love it. I love my SW s/s .357 also. Neither has a ‘safety’ as if the gun itself could be safe or unsafe. It’s not sentient. Keeping it safe is my job.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795222563523474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50432767299798406782016-04-29T13:44:10.402-04:002016-04-29T13:44:10.402-04:00A pistol with only a trigger safety may be "s...A pistol with only a trigger safety may be "safe" for law enforcement, but I would never own one. Study the 100+ year old Browning designed M1911. It has two safeties. A grip safety independent from the trigger, plus a manual thumb safety.<br /><br />The Glock can be fired simply by pressing the trigger even if it is not being held properly or at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-2732120873504591592016-04-29T12:52:59.172-04:002016-04-29T12:52:59.172-04:00Besides your own novels, Fran (which are excellent...Besides your own novels, Fran (which are excellent)- I also enjoy Dean Koontz' novels, but one of his first ones (don't remember the title, alas) was quite amusing. Unintentionally.<br /><br />Koontz had to go to great lengths to avoid the hero just using the revolver that he had on the Evil Beast, which would have ended the threat immediately (and would have made the novel into a very short story.)<br /><br />At that time Dean Koontz had very little knowledge of firearms (obvious to anyone who does) so his hero was frustrated because: the multiple safeties on his revolver (!) stopped the gun from firing, long enough for the Beast to get safely away and plot more evil for our hero to overcome. (For those who don't know: revolvers usually don't have a safety, let alone more than one; semi-automatics generally do have a safety.) That ended any drama in the novel for me.<br /><br />I am thankful that somewhere along his writing career, Dean Koontz learned about firearms, as his later novels don't have such defects. Such ignorance really distracts from the story! (Koontz is from, and lives in, California; this may account for his lack of knowledge, as so many here are brainwashed.)<br /><br />M. Night Shyamalan also has a problem with firearms, his film "Signs" was spoiled by the hero's not having a tool that probably every other farm in the region had: a shotgun. So the hero had to use a baseball bat to fight the aliens. Not very believable to me!<br /><br />Finally, I don't care for Glock- they are functional, unlovely but generally work & go "bang"- but I'd much rather have a beautiful and/or historical weapon. Glocks are neither; their appeal seems to be that they are virtually indestructible.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Eskymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947922645001422523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-24932747541771690112016-04-29T10:25:15.876-04:002016-04-29T10:25:15.876-04:00Hi Fran, I'll start out saying that although I...Hi Fran, I'll start out saying that although I own one Glock, it is one out of the 50+ handguns that I own, so I'm not a particular fan of them. That said, there are many handguns that have no external safety. Virtually all revolvers, most Smith and Wesson M&P pistols, Springfield XDs, many Sig Sauer pistols, many modern Walthers, and others. Some of them, like the revolvers, are double-action (or DA/SA), with long, firm trigger pulls, and others are striker fired, just like the Glock.<br /><br />It's my experience (including from my own journey in firearms ownership) that less practiced shooters tend to prefer the affirmative nature of a safety switch, and indeed my carry pistols all have external safeties, but it's really a matter of your level of training and what you're comfortable with. There are good points on either side of that question.Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03656341767881132741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-68483546048778149852016-04-29T09:39:23.201-04:002016-04-29T09:39:23.201-04:00Accidental, negligent, feh. The gun has no safety....Accidental, negligent, feh. <i>The gun has no safety.</i> That exposes it to the possibilities Wild Bill describes and the incidents he enumerates, which a gun with a safety would not suffer. Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-57854387895199132072016-04-29T08:45:37.924-04:002016-04-29T08:45:37.924-04:00Francis, There is no such thing as an accidental d...Francis, There is no such thing as an accidental discharge. There are instances of gross negligence by a shooter that result in a "Negligent Discharge". Glocks are very safe pistols. You can throw one out of a second story window and it will not go off. The Glock Safe Trigger will not fire unless you press it. A safe shooter will never put his finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger until he has acquired his target, made a conscious decision to shoot and presses the trigger.<br />During my twenty-nine years of police work, I witnessed a number of Negligent Discharges by my co-workers, none of them were carrying Glocks. The Glock is just as safe as any pistol on the market. The human carrying the Glock or the S&W or Colt will always be the most error prone part of the equation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com