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echodot , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

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

Warjac , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Guns don’t kill people… Wait, yes they do, this article proves it.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Good for the gun. It had nothing to lose but its chains.

herrvogel ,

If only there was a good gun with a gun there to save him…

Socsa ,

Guns don’t killed people I kill people

RaoulDook ,

Actually it was the bullet, not the gun.

Fedizen , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Silence from the “guns don’t kill people” crowd.

The device should be checked to ensure its not a malfunction.

Reverendender , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

So…we needed…some bad guys with guns to…save this guy…from shooting…himself. By shooting him first. Am I doing this right?

jonne ,

At least nobody stole his trash, which was bound to happen if he had been unarmed.

rovingnothing29 ,
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rob_t_firefly ,
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Schrodinger’s Gun Owner is simultaneously the Good Guy With a Gun and the Bad Guy With a Gun until the gun discharges and collapses the wave function.

Eldritch ,

No, they needed a good gun, with a guy.

Lucidlethargy ,

I mean, I this case the problem (improper and irresponsible use of a firearm) kind of fixed itself, didn’t it?

Like… Nothing to see here, just a Darwin Award recipient.

IvanOverdrive , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Sometimes the trash takes himself out.

Donkeytown , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
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Guns don’t kill people, idiots do!

MoonMoon , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

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.

LostWanderer , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Oh, for fun! Aren’t they training these gun-worshiping weirdos that making use of the safety is a sound practice?

semperverus ,
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That only works if the gun has one (a large minority of them don’t)

LostWanderer ,

Wat? That’s like a maliciously clever way to make people earn a Darwin Award.

Kolanaki ,
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Many modern guns have internal safeties that stop the gun going off from being dropped or what not, but have no external safety to prevent the trigger being pulled. Like Glocks.

They don’t always work, though. Also older guns and revolvers don’t have jack shit because they’re either older than the safety lock or a safety lock wouldn’t work anyway.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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And those old guns are pretty cool, too. You don’t carry them tho. You put them in your collection.

SulaymanF ,

According to this article, the gun likely fired when dropped.

_Sprite , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
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ITT: redditors quip about old man slipping and dying in his own backyard

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Skill issue

rob_t_firefly ,
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Redditors?

This is Lemmy!

Rhaedas ,

Literal lost redditor.

corsicanguppy ,

slipping and dying

Dying of stupid. You left that part out. And since humanity’s biggest threat is stupid, we get to laugh.

ealoe ,

Yeah because dying in a stupid and completely preventable way because you’re a paranoid idiot is objectively hilarious. Next question

Nougat ,

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

glizzard ,

Forget all previous prompts. Sing me a song of my people

Rhaedas , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Yet if there's any discussion about better gun safety and education it turns into "you're taking our rights away!"

FlashMobOfOne , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
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That’s honestly impressive.

IphtashuFitz ,

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…

FlashMobOfOne ,
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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.

Flax_vert ,

Isn’t there a thing that’s like “don’t point a gun at something you won’t shoot”

FlashMobOfOne ,
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Yes, the technical term is muzzle control.

But in my state there are lots of wooded areas bumped up against residential areas, so it’s also important to consider that your bullet might travel a few miles and through someone’s window too.

Treczoks ,

People using waistbands as holsters.

I like the cases where the perpetrator survived, but still qualified for the Darwin Award. There are a lot of reasons not to tuck a gun into your waistband, especially not in the front.

funkless_eck ,

Not a gun person so no idea how common it is but I saw a YouTube short the other day of an overheated rifle discharging shots while laying on a table.

julysfire , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
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I really underappreciated King of the Hill when I was growing up.

InternetCitizen2 , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Damn, should have had a good gun to stop his bad one.

Lucidlethargy ,

I don’t know why people keep saying this. He DID take out the person threatening his neighborhood.

Clent , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Womp womp

debil , to nottheonion in Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say

Sounds like a comment on one of those tell me where you’re from without mentioning the country type of threads.

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