I think I would have been a lot happier if I’d never learned that.

Glocks have some internal safety mechanisms which make them drop-safe, and which makes it basically impossible for them to go off without fully pulling the trigger, but they don’t have a manual safety that you’d flip on and off with your thumb or whatever. The main point of a traditional manual safety is to keep the gun from firing while you’re carrying it, like if you were walking through the woods and a stray branch or something pokes your holster hard enough to move the trigger, for example, the safety would prevent the gun from firing. Or on some pistols (but definitely not all pistols), the manual safety will keep it from firing if you drop it. But with pistols like Glocks which are already drop-safe, modern hard-sided Kydex holsters have made a manual safety kind of redundant because they’re molded to the exact shape of the gun and they completely enclose the trigger guard to keep out anything that might accidentally move the trigger. It’s sort of like having a hard case for your gun right on your hip. So if you’re going to carry a pistol which doesn’t have a manual safety, Kydex holsters are pretty much the only way to go.

As for manual safeties being required by law, they definitely aren’t where I live. I’ve don’t recall ever seeing a Glock with a safety. But gun laws vary a lot from state to state. If you live somewhere like California it wouldn’t surprise me if a law like that existed there, but I doubt it would most other places.

What do you think is going to get him first: heart disease, type 2 diabetes, or a negligent discharge from waistband carrying a pistol which doesn’t have a manual safety?

There really isn’t a trend of warehouse fires. The It Could Happen Here podcast did an episode on it the other day. Warehouse fires are just really common. They happen on average of four times a day in the US. But now you have a ton of content creators trying to paint every new one as a WaLuigi copycat to get those social media clicks. And since these fires are a daily occurrence, there are tons to choose from. They’re conflating events that are almost certainly not connected at all.

While I’m sure we’re going to get a WaLuigi copycat at some point in the future, there is no evidence that’s happening right now. A lot of people desperately want to believe that it is, though. I would like to believe that it is. But there just isn’t any actual evidence that it’s true.

Not that that’s going to stop lawmakers from clutching their pearls and passing some new draconian laws that further put the screws to the working class. I’ve been paying attention to politics for over 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen Congress pass up a chance to screw over poor people when the opportunity arises.

The Internet K Hole . A rotating collection of old snapshots (occasionally nsfw) presented without context. It’s weirdly enthralling. You can lose hours and hours on that site.

Lemmy isn’t really the platform for that. If I were trying to sell a phone I’d probably list it on Swappa, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and sell it here. And if I were buying a second hand phone, of those three I’d be most inclined to buy off of Swappa.