If your weapon is out, you don't fight. If a perp physically attacks an officer with a drawn weapon, it is considered an attempt to disarm and the use of deadly force is the proper response.
Police officers, like everyone else, are not to be thought of as being perfect in regards to handling firearms safely. There is a lot of data out there to support this, including that the only lawsuit I know of against Sig due to the P320 not being drop safe, is from a police officer who dropped a P320 and got shot in the leg.
I really don't understand the "I just won't drop my gun" comments on this thread. It has been stated plenty of times already that most people don't plan on dropping their guns, but it still happens anyway.
What exactly was Sig thinking, not putting a drop safety on the trigger? I too would question the experience of any manufacturer that decided to take out a safety feature used by practically all other competitive and comparative striker fired pistol designs, and then ends up with an unsafe pistol. Did they not know what that lever was there for on their competitor's pistols? Did they know to test that their design was safe, without that lever? Did they know how to test it?
As far as I'm concerned, there is no excuse, for any pistol in this era of modern pistols, to fire simply from a drop of two and a half feet. If a problem is found, it should be announced immediately, and should then be recalled immediately. From what I've seen and read on this topic, there are questions whether it was announced immediately after Sig was made aware of the issue, and it still has not been recalled yet.
I've seen people drop loaded pistols right in front of me before. At this point, I don't want to share a class, or even a range with someone who is using a Sig P320. I'm amazed that anyone, especially in a gun forum, wouldn't see how bad of an issue this is. It isn't going to hurt gun rights to get pistols that fire from a two and a half foot drop, off the streets. What is going to hurt them, is an innocent person getting shot for no reason by a pistol that could (and in my opinion, should) be considered unsafe. Not to mention what happens to the person or people getting shot.
It has already happened.
As to the people who are arguing that no pistol is drop safe, I ask, please, show me what it takes to set any other modern striker fired pistol off without pulling the trigger. I'll wait.
I wonder how many people, after seeing the videos of the P320 going off, have been trying to do the same with pistols that Sig would call their competition? Due to the lack of reports, I'd go out on a limb and assume that nobody else has been able to mimic the results on another design.