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

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

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

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?

take his trash

I was this-many reads in when I finally understood he wasn't TALKING trash to his dumpster.

"You want a piece of me, you smelly filth, you rubbish heap, you trumpsterfire of human indecen--BANG! Arghhhhhh...."

His biggest threat was himself.

Glad he took care of that.

Now he is no longer a threat to himself.

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.

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…

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.

A “good guy with a gun” should have shot him first, so we wouldn’t have this problem

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.