Reply #20: Educate yourself.

[Straw Man]

Almost every firearm produced now has some sort of safety -- even modern revolvers have a hammer-block safety that prevents the gun from firing if dropped on its hammer. You're probably thinking of a manual safety, which is a feature of many, but by no means all, semi-auto handguns. Any mechanical safety device is not a substitute for safe gun handling -- it merely adds an extra layer of protection.

Striker-fired semi-auto pistols do not have a manual safety, relying instead on a long trigger pull to prevent negligent discharges. This would include the Glock, which has an estimated 65% of the U.S. law-enforcement market and is the most popular military and police handgun in the world. Like modern revolvers, Glocks are "drop-safe," but negligent discharges can happen if idiots persist in carrying them without adequate holsters and are incapable of keeping their fingers off the trigger until ready to shoot. It should be noted that negligent discharges can happen even with pistols that have manual safeties: "I thought the safety was on" ranks with "I didn't know it was loaded" as an invalid excuse for unsafe behavior. No mechanical device is idiot-proof.

By the way, none of the stories linked in the OP mentions this man's gun not having a safety. That's just some random speculation by another poster in this thread.

This man was negligent and abused his right to carry a firearm. All rights will be abused by someone, somewhere, sometime. We have legal mechanisms for removing rights from those who abuse them. Removing rights from people who do not abuse them is not justifiable.