Dog shoots owner in the back after jumping on shotgun left on bed: Police

He forgot to buy a second gun to stop his dog from using his first gun against him.

Where were all the good dog gun owners to defend the victim?
The only thing that stops a good dog with a gun is a bad dog with a gun.
Or maybe a cat with a knife, I guess? I dunno.😸
- It is the cat. The problem is then you need a mouse with a rusty needle to deal with the cat.
- Cats already have little knives, though. Around 18 of them...
But then you'd have to buy a third gun to protect you from the second one

Owner shot from behind by their own shotgun due to negligent firearm storage. Dog didn't shoot shit.

That's just what somebody associated with BIG DOG would say.
The fucking dumbass, " I'm gonna clean my shotgun, but let me make sure it's loaded first "

Looking at the news I would guess American houses are buit mostly out of loaded firerarms coddled together by zipties. And oversized fridges.

Similar words: coddled is treated carefully, cobbled is poorly constructed.
And those fridges show ads now
Hey! I will have you know, mine also involves copious amounts of knives, duct tape, and drywall joint compound.
Can confirm. My anti intruder body pillow is a little uncomfortable sometimes.

He was cleaning his (loaded) gun... Sure...

Its actually a very common problem. Gun nuts all think they are John McClane and need to keep one in the chamber at all times. They remove the magazine but never properly run the action and yeah. Its especially a problem with glocks because disassembly actually involves squeezing the trigger.
Responsible gun owners are only slightly more common than good guys with a gun.
I've met some people who really should not have guns...
- Most people I've met really should not have guns. And don't, as far as I know.
- Like my brother? Has anger issues, and thinks he is allowed shoot people in self-defence(which is illegal in my country).
stuff like this makes a real strong case for taking guns away from everybody

Pretty dumb to keep a round chambered.

My father, an NRA ~~member~~ sucker that claims gun safety first, leaves a 12g fully loaded (buckshot) with one in the chamber and safety off in a soft bag with the zipper open right under him while he sleeps. He also has Parkinsons.
You're giving these people way too much credit by presuming they do any form of critical thinking.
- He also has Parkinsons.
  You can't make this shit up lmao
- You mean its not clipped into a swivel bracket on the underside of the slats for when your new partner escapes having his brains blown out in a bathtub?!
  How will we know whether he's surgical with that bitch, Jake?!
- Wow that is very dumb and very dangerous.
Unless you are paranoid.
- Even then it's dumb, but you can always load it if you think you will need it. It shouldn't be chambered all the time though. Guns are too dangerous to use like that.
- Only if your paranoia includes your dog being out to get you
So par for the course...

I feel like if your dog shoots you thats your own damn fault.

Not in US. In US gun owners are never responsible for what happens with their guns. It can be the kid's fault, the dog's fault or even fault of the gun itself but it's never the gun owner's fault.
- I bet it's Obama's fault!! 😤
- You're right, I forgot about the Dick Cheney rule.
- You wouldn't just do that! Go on the internet and lie!

The victim told police that before the incident, he was cleaning his firearm

getting shot by own gun and cleaning it, these often come together, maybe is safer to keep them dirty

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.
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.
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.

This will be the most American thing I've read all 2025.

Ruff

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good boy with a gun

I'm pretty sure I read about this exact scenario almost a decade ago.

Dogs are smart, they actually learn from history 👍
It happens a lot. They even made a lifetime movie about one incident.
- That was heart wrenching to watch. I remember the first time we watched this... The whole family ended up crying their eyeballs out 🥹
The dogs are rising up in a very calculated slow burn plan!
Well it's either that, or come to the realization that guns are dangerous, and should always be treated with care. Always respect the lethal nature they can inflict if mishandled. And admit that casually storing them on your bed is really not a good move.
Guns don't kill people.
Idiots with guns kill people by accident.
- Idiots with guns kill people by accident.
  'Accidents only happen because somebody did something on purpose.'
- Dogs are angry about all the selective breeding we've been doing for centuries, digressing further away from the wolf.

Why was a loaded gun on the bed? That seems like terrible firearm safety.

Fun fact! 90% of gun owners treat firearms like this!
WHO DOWNVOTED THIS JESUS CHRIST
- LMAOOOO
The dumbass was cleaning it with it loaded...

If only there were a good boy with a gun

This was the good boy with a gun - that's the problem!

That dog

I'm thinking this dog:

So this must be what the pigs are scared of when they're shooting people's dogs.

The shooting appears to be accidental, but police said they are still investigating the incident.

"On any occasion prior to this, had your dog exhibited hostility towards you, sir?"

I mean, I like things that go boom as much as the next human. But how hard is it to; 1, not fucking literally sleep with the thing. And 2; leave it unloaded if you are‽

I'm always amused by the stories about loaded guns being confiscated at airports in people's carry on bags. The one place everyone should know that you cannot take a gun. Inevitably, they say, "I forgot it was in there."
Stories like these don't inspire my belief in safe gun owners. I'm sure they're out there, but so are a lot of idiot gun owners.
- I've only ever seen a handful of stories like that. But I agree with you. How dumb are you‽

Poorest excuse for a friend accidentally shooting you. "My dog ate my homework."

Guns don’t kill people, dogs kill people.

Yeah that makes sense, he was just cleaning his shotgun... with a shell in the chamber. That's definitely how that works.

Yup, my thoughts exactly.
Argument with the son?

Awww, who's a good boy.

Good boy

AGAIN????

Looking for stats, I found this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/armedwithreason/p/dog-shoots-person-again

Who let the dogs out ?

Yippiaaaa, bang!

The clown claimed he was "cleaning his shotgun," while it was fucking loaded. I would give his dog a treat for making attempt to get rid of an idiot gun owner.

The revolt begins!

Too dumb to live. What idiot leaves a gun ready to fire, probably with safety off, unsupervised?

They were sleeping together, the gun just wasn't a morning weapon and still in bed at the time.
Oh come on, show me a single elementary school classroom in the US that doesn't have this...

This is crazy, officials said.

“Dog bites man” is famously not a story, whereas “man bites dog” is. Replace biting with shooting and it’s the other way around.

McGruff proving, once again, that all cops are bastards.

That dog has no honor.

Justice for the dog.

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