So…we needed…some bad guys with guns to…save this guy…from shooting…himself. By shooting him first. Am I doing this right?
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At least nobody stole his trash, which was bound to happen if he had been unarmed.
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No, they needed a good gun, with a guy.
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USE THE FUCKING SAFETY YOU IDIOTS
Some guns, shockingly, don't have a safety.
Don’t buy those guns idiots
I have a couple without external safeties. The idea is to carry them in a fitted holster that covers the trigger. Kydex holsters are like $25 or $30 for any given model, it's a no-brainer.
Also, they have internal safeties to prevent firing when dropped. Also, they have long and hard trigger pulls.
Don’t buy those guns idiots
You need to pass this wisdom on to thousands and thousands of police and military forces across the planet. Because Glock.
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Are you saying his parents should have used a condom?
Or perhaps don't carry a gun when doing mundane tasks such as taking out the trash?
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Thank God he was safe from whatever threat he was so afraid of that he thought he needed a loaded gun to take his trash to the end of his driveway.
I'm so fucking glad that I'm not so terrified of everything and everyone that I think I need a loaded gun 24 hours a day to protect myself.
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Guns don't kill people... Wait, yes they do, this article proves it.
If only there was a good gun with a gun there to save him...
Good for the gun. It had nothing to lose but its chains.
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Sounds like a comment on one of those tell me where you're from without mentioning the country type of threads.
Yet if there's any discussion about better gun safety and education it turns into "you're taking our rights away!"
That's honestly impressive.
Eh. The Darwin Awards have seen countless examples of:
- Police, firearm instructors, etc. shooting themselves.
- People “proving” (incorrectly) that a gun is unloaded by pointing it at their head & pulling the trigger.
- Hunters being shot by their dogs that step on the triggers of shotguns etc.
- People using waistbands as holsters.
- People playing Russian roulette, sometimes with semiautomatic pistols.
And on and on…
It's so wild to me to hear these things, because it's been a good 15 years since I took hunter safety training in my state, but the literal first thing they taught us was about considering where your bullet's going to go.
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Yeah, yeah, but notice how no trash thief attacked him on his way to the dumpster thanks to him having a gun on his person!
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I misread this as "talking trash to dumpster" and thought "The police will come up with any excuse to shoot innocent people and make it look like a suicide now, won't they?"
You guys are making jokes but we can all be grateful he died free with his 2nd amendment rights intact. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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I definitely need a gun to take out my trash. You never know when trash-monsters might jump out of the dumpster and then what.
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Literally the ONLY way to have Prevented this was if he Shot his GUN first before his Gun could shoot HIM! LITERALLY nothing else could have Prevented this! Nothing like background checks or safe storage laws or other things to ensure only safe gun owners have Guns!
A “good guy with a gun” should have shot him first, so we wouldn’t have this problem
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So he was carrying an unsecured weapon? It's good that he just shot himself, and not some innocent bystander.
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Imagine how much of a pussy you have to be to need to wear a gun at all times.
From my read of the article he wasn't wearing it, he was holding it in his hands along with the trash...
What's the line of thinking on that?
Get up. Realize it's trash day and grab the trash to go outside - but wait! What if some ne'er-do-well has been lying in ambush until 6 in the fucking morning to rob me of my precious trash? Better grab my heat. Shit I'm still in my pajamas and my holster is in the other room. I'll just walk out like some romcom librarian, except instead of books I have a heap of trash and a loaded gun and the part where I trip is a lot less cute.
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I really underappreciated King of the Hill when I was growing up.
A Darwin award is needed for this idiot
What POS gun goes off from a slip and fall? This sounds like some serious stupidity.
The Sig P320, a $700 pistol from a "quality" brand that was adopted as the new military standard issue pistol, would fire if dropped at the wring angle. They didn't want to have the trigger-safety mechanism that Glock and others use that includes a spring-loaded trigger lock that prevents the trigger from being pulled without something actually inside the trigger guard to pull it.
So if you dropped it at the wrong angle, it had enough inertia that when the gun hit the ground the trigger would keep moving and pull itself.
This was discovered in military trials, so they fixed the flaw (with a lighter trigger that wouldn't have as much inertia combined with a heavier trigger pull) for the military, but not for the Civilian model.
A viral YouTube video came out showing how it could be reliably fired by dropping it (the video used blanks so they weren't actually shooting wildly), and they still denied it was a problem until all the gun dealers refused to sell the gun.
They did a recall, but there's still probably a million affected guns out there.
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For some reason i read man talking trash to dumpster
"What? You're just some big green box! You ain't shit! You're full of shit! What are you gonna do, sit there and smell kinda bad? Your mother was a steel mill."
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I kept reading "Man taLking trash to a dumpster" and I was like lol get rekt noob it wasn't even armed. Then I read "dumpster with gun" and thought hmm, maybe it was. I should go to sleep.
Nature is healing itself.
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You know there really should be some kind of safety feature on the gun which prevents it going off just because the trigger got pulled.
Also even I know about trigger discipline, I mean come on
What could go wrong if I walk with a loaded gun with the safety off?
Nothing! This way I can shoot someone so fast that cops would envy me!
This was the most onion headline I've read and it took a long minute to realize where I was.
Sometimes the trash takes himself out.
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