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I got into USPSA shortly after I started shooting. There you quickly learn to keep your finger off the trigger, indexed along the frame, unless actually firing. If you don't, you're told to pack up and go home for the day.
That's stood me in good stead shooting IPSC/USPSA, Cowboy Action, and training at place like Gunsite.
This is also how the group I'm with teaches gun handling in the monthly NRA Basic Handgun classes we put on. We do a lot of one-on-one hands-on work with students, and we continually reinforce this. All my fellow instructors have been trained as I have, and we continual model this behavior with our own gun handling.
Guns are in fact designed so one's falls naturally on the trigger. So keeping one's finger off the trigger and indexed on the frame is something one must consciously train himself to do. But I consider it the "gold standard" for gun handling.
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"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
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