Highly illogical and dangerous

s2e20 "A Piece of the Action"

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Someone on here said something like trigger discipline wasn’t really a thing until the late 80’s. Which sounds right somehow. All the cop shows and westerns before that, they ran around holding the trigger.
This is in the 20’s right? So my man is just being period-accurate, which is highly logical.
- Secondly, even in real life, gun ownership isn't a thing in modern societies, only in backward third world countries
  If the majority of modern humans don't know what trigger discipline is, why would Spock?
  
  Because they still have guns in Star Trek, and Spock and his crewmates carry them all the time? Those TOS phaser pistols don't even have trigger guards, so it'd be logical to think trigger discipline would still be a thing.
Weapon safety rule number 3 Mr Spock: keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you’re ready to fire.
You may be a Vulcan but I will still kick you off my firing range if you don’t unfuck yourself.
- WERE YOU ABOUT TO CALL ME AN ASSHOLE?!
- Weapon safety rule 1 is to have fun
  
  Weapon safety rule #2 is DO NOT talk about weapon safety
- I think the Vulcan version of that saying is, "keep your booger hook off the bang switch!"
How about that muzzle pointing at his face? Damn Spock, come on dude.
- He's Spock. That is trigger discipline. Spock is so disciplined, that trigger is more disciplined than of his finger weren't on it.
  
  Also, with discipline no one gets a piece of the action.
He was about to kill the mofo talking to Kirk, he knew exactly what he was doing.
I mean, are mechanic triggers even a thing in the federation?
- On the phaser rifles, totally.
  Aaand here's Ezri being another bad example:
  
  Dax is trained in Klingon trigger discipline.
  
  I can totally believe that, by the 24th century, phasers are smart enough to fire by intention, not by some crude electromagnetical switch. Triggers are contact points, not switches.
  They have technology that can literately disassemble things at the atomic level, from a distance and - even more impressive - correctly re-assemble them. I'd not be shocked if their firing systems had advanced beyond what we have today.
  
  It's hard to see but it doesn't look to me like a trigger of today. I could see trigger in the future being a touch sensitive button that has some other safety features built in.
Don't worry, he only has it set on "stun".
Oh god I just shot Marvin in the face
Eh, it's fine, guns never go off accidentally.
- Precisely why no one should have them; the average person is incredibly stupid. Similar to the cop in the story you linked, a fucking dumb ass piece of shit idiot.

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