Do you know how fast a person can get to you with a knife,You will be stuck before you can draw and chamber a round.For now, I leave my SA xd.40 with no bullet in the chamber. Not too worried with being slow, since any place I would be worried about being attacked/mugged/whatever, the people dont really have guns. Most of the problems are with knives. I want to get used to it just being there before I keep it loaded.
Do you know how fast a person can get to you with a knife,You will be stuck before you can draw and chamber a round.
I was never comfortable with cocked and locked, even when my holster had a thumbstrap that sat under the hammer. Any mechanical device can fail and I never liked the idea of having springs under tension.
I know the common wisdom says cocked and locked is the safest way to carry a 1911 but it creeps me out. With a slight bump it can become cocked and unlocked, so if I carry that style firearm it will be hammer down or empty chamber. For everyday carry I have a Kel-Tec and a Walther P99 and I feel comfortable with their double action trigger pulls however I would not carry the Walther cocked either.
Irrational or not that is the same reason I wouldn't carry a glock. For me it is just as fast to thumb back the hammer as it is to find the safety. Locked ranks right up there with carrying a single action revolver cocked in a holster, I use it when the gun is already drawn.I'm sorry man, but your fear of a small bump to a 1911 seems very irrational to me.