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?

USE THE FUCKING SAFETY YOU IDIOTS

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.

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

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

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.

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!

/s

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?"

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.

You guys are making jokes but we can all be grateful he died free with his 2nd amendment rights intact. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

So he was carrying an unsecured weapon? It's good that he just shot himself, and not some innocent bystander.

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!

Imagine how much of a pussy you have to be to need to wear a gun at all times.

One of the worst King of the Hill arcs.

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.

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.

For some reason i read man talking trash to dumpster

Nature is healing itself.

aLWAyS CArRY oNE iN ThE CHamBER

Skill issue.

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.

Who prints the Darwin awards?

Read this as "man talking trash to dumpster" and figured someone's cybertruck had a BSOD or somethin.

Everyone else really dodged a bullet with this guy.

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

Silence from the "guns don't kill people" crowd.

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

Police determined that the shooting was the result of a freak accident.

Hey now, he may be dumb but calling him a freak is ... oh, never mind.

Eh that sucks. I feel bad for their family.

Gun people are deranged.

Freedumb!

Guns don't kill people, idiots do!

When’s the time to talk about the grammatical butchery that is the interpretation of the second amendment to the Bill of Rights?

Even if the government argues the unorganized militia is all male citizens aged 18-45, and females in the National Guard, that’s still not everyone. Also, if the 2nd amendment isn’t actually what grants states their own Defence Forces, but instead the Compact clause of the Constitution, than why the fuck can they exist in times of peace? Americans refuse to read and interpret their own laws, at the detriment to their children, to their families, their existence, and to their future.

Womp womp

ITT: redditors quip about old man slipping and dying in his own backyard