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Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say (www.ksat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's honestly impressive.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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…

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

A Darwin award is needed for this idiot

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (4 children)

USE THE FUCKING SAFETY YOU IDIOTS

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Some guns, shockingly, don't have a safety.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Don’t buy those guns idiots

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Nature is healing itself.

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