Do you carry chambered or not?

My opinion is any gun without a bullet in the chamber ready to fire is a good rock to throw at the bad guy. Yes there are a few experts who practice hard enough that they can draw, rack, and fire with great speed, but those are few and far between and the average bad guy is gonna do his best to blow your head off while you are in the process of trying it.

My personal thought is a 1911 with an SA trigger should only be carried like they say "Cocked & Locked" But if your not willing to practice enough where the draw and release of the safety all work together and your ready to fire as it comes on target then you shouldn't carry it. It needs to be an auto reflex or your putting yourself and everyone around you at risk.

GunNut your a little off saying the Glock has no safety. True, no physical lever to push, but they do have built in trigger safetys and a DA trigger with a longer harder pull that kind of works as a safety.

I have the new Taurus 24/7 OSS model which has a SA/DA trigger. It also has a manual safety lever with a second position as a decocker. Once it is racked it is in SA mode, i use the safety lever to lock her up. Or, i can use the decocker to kick it over to DA mode and then it works pretty much like the Glock with long trigger pull.

My Springfield XD is built a lot like a Glock with a trigger safety but also a grip safety too and no manual safety lever.

With any gun your best safety is keeping your finger off the trigger until you actually want to fire the gun. I know that is old hat, but it bears repeating. Anyone who carries a 1911 or any gun with a hammer back in condition 1 without using the safety is a moron, get away from them, far away...

Most any gun in good repair can be carried safely if safety rules are followed. Most any gun being carried without following good safety rules can be deadly. Like i said, this is my opinion, but i think the stats will probably show it's pretty close to the truth.