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Honestly, I would get a Saw Stop if I could afford one. This guy learned he needed one the hard way, but if you do any serious woodworking it's probably the first expensive tool you should upgrade to. Festool gadgets are nice and all but this thing will literally save your limbs.
I do a lot of woodworking and this is an ongoing debate you can find in most woodworking forums: if you use one of these, you're much more likely to need it. So all you're really doing is paying to be lazy and unsafe.
Fact is you can operate a table saw perfectly safely without a saw stop. Proper use of push blocks, paying attention, and basic safety protocol like "no gloves, no sleeves" and you'll never hurt yourself using these tools. It just requires discipline.
Don't believe me, look at the numbers. In the US there's about ten million table saws in operation every year and about 3000 injuries annually. Cars have a bigger causality count. They're perfectly safe tools if you're using them properly.
Why not just get one and practice proper safety procedures?
Didn't you hear him? That's unsafe you lazy bum /s