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getting shot by own gun and cleaning it, these often come together, maybe is safer to keep them dirty
Nobody is ever actually shot while "cleaning" their gun. Unloading it is step 1 in this procedure for basically every firearm ever made, and that assessment stretches back several hundred years by now.
This is just a culturally ingrained lame excuse people pathologically fall back on thinking they're going to save face over capping their own damn selves with an easily avoidable negligent discharge. And everyone who tries it inevitably thinks they're the first person to think of it, because they're stupid.
If you get shot cleaning your gun you have MAJORLY fucked up.
Like, you have to try to be that level of stupid and it still happens. People are just incredibly dumb it would seem. I mean, I know we must have a ton of morons in this country in order for Trump to get elected because ... Everything.
Also complete bullshit. If you're cleaning it, you wouldn't have a round in the chamber.
Not unless you're really dumb, people accidentally shoot themselves with "unloaded" guns all the time.
Somehow he was cleaning it and it still had rounds to fire or he cleaned and reloaded and left it unsecured so it had rounds to fire. Sounds like sort of person who should own a gun for sure.