We are taught to not put our fingers inside the trigger housing until we are ready to shoot. I must have pulled my gun a thousand times, but most of the time my finger stayed outside the guard.

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>Hey, question for you while I have you here : watching TV for the last couple years I see everybody with a pistol going out of their way to hold the trigger finger outside the trigger guard - even when pointing at somebody armed and threatening immediate fire! I even see criminals holding it that way. I get that in uncertain situations you don't want accidental discharge, and maybe I'm freaked because I have really long fingers and just getting my finger inside the guard could be a project, but has training really changed so much? ( I'm so old nobody ever mentioned to me I might not want to have my finger in a good-to-go position from the minute I decided there was a chance I might want something to come out of the end with a hole in it.) . Best case, jerky motion getting finger in place, Worst case, never getting a chance to get finger where it might do some good. Seems that in the real world this would be a recipe for getting dead.
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>(the analogy with legal rights for terrorists kind of reminded me of this)