No picture of the offending coiffure. 
Spoiler Alert.
It was a mullet.
We often hear from the right how guns are necessary to prevent the tyranny of the government; that the government needs to fear an armed uprising from the people. This is generally couched in the language that assumes that the government has become tyrannical.
Inthis article on Trump supporters, we hear from Trump supporter, Mark Villalta:
*"Mark Villalta said he had been stockpiling firearms, in case Mr. Trump’s re-election is not successful.
“Nothing less than a civil war would happen,” Mr. Villalta said, his right hand reaching for a holstered handgun. “I don’t believe in violence, but I’ll do what I got to do.” "*
Note that he is not arguing for an armed overthrow in case of government working inappropriately. He is threatening armed overthrow in case the government works exactly as it is supposed to. If Trump is not reelected, he will support violence.
And this is what the whole gun argument boils down to. There is too much firepower capacity in the hands of individuals who can, and often are, out of their goddamn minds. One person, like Mark here, can decide it is necessary to overthrow the government. Now, I don’t believe he would be successful, but I do believe that he can murder a lot of people thanks to high capacity magazines and weapons that the founding fathers never envisioned.
There should be a limit to the amount of damage that a single person can inflict. Because individuals, like Mark, can be crazy and stupid and impulsive. How is this even controversial?
This was from January 2020- a woman in Bethany, Oregon shot her iPhone for unknown reasons. Police report that she may have been holding it at the time it was shot.
I guess she figured the bullet would stop at the phone.
Fortunately her neighbor in the condominium was not injured.
On January 3, 2020, this parent-of-the-year from West Monroe, Louisiana held “a gun to the head of his 9-year-old son because he was angry with the boy for drinking the last Dr. Pepper in the house.”
The child told his mother.
When the police followed up with the dad the next day, the dad denied having done this.
But the dad had also told his 11-year old daughter about having done it between the time he did it and the time the police followed up.
But hey, everything was OK. He was just drunk!
New Year’s Eve celebration by randomly shooting into the air events:
In Houston, a nurse was killed by a stray shot “shortly after midnight”. Probably a celebration rounds. Law enforcement searched the area for casings and the shooter but didn’t locate anyone. Nurse killed by stray bullet during New Year’s Eve celebration
In Cleveland, Ohio, a man killed his girlfriend when “popping off rounds” to celebrate also "just after midnight: Man was ‘popping off’ rounds to celebrate New Year’s Day when he fatally shot girlfriend, Cleveland police say
This officer in Lima, Ohio was not killed, only injured “only a few minutes after the new year began”: Ohio sheriff hit by 'celebratory' bullet on New Year's day | CNN
Fortunately no one was injured by the celebratory bullet in Austin, Texas. I just scared a mom at home with her new baby “ten minutes into the new year”: Stray bullet hits house on New Year’s Day, nearly injures woman
And this three-year old in Phoenix, Arizona was only injured: Two people struck by gunfire during US New Year's Eve celebrations | US crime | The Guardian
In Brownsville, Texas this two year old was also “only injured”, but the story doesn’t say very much about the second case “involving a stray bullet” also being investigated there at the same time: https://valleycentral.com/news/local/child-struck-by-stray-bullet-during-new-year-celebration
New Year’s Eve celebration by randomly shooting into the air events:
In Houston, a nurse was killed by a stray shot “shortly after midnight”. Probably a celebration round. Law enforcement searched the area for casings and the shooter but didn’t locate anyone. Nurse killed by stray bullet during New Year’s Eve celebration
In Cleveland, Ohio, a man killed his girlfriend when “popping off rounds” to celebrate also “just after midnight”: Man was ‘popping off’ rounds to celebrate New Year’s Day when he fatally shot girlfriend, Cleveland police say
This officer in Lima, Ohio was not killed, only injured “only a few minutes after the new year began”: Ohio sheriff hit by 'celebratory' bullet on New Year's day | CNN
Fortunately no one was injured by the celebratory bullet in Austin, Texas. It just scared a mom at home with her new baby “ten minutes into the new year”: Stray bullet hits house on New Year’s Day, nearly injures woman
This three-year old in Phoenix, Arizona was only injured: Two people struck by gunfire during US New Year's Eve celebrations | US crime | The Guardian
And in Brownsville, Texas this two year old was also “only injured”, but the story doesn’t say very much about the second case “involving a stray bullet” also being investigated there at the same time: https://valleycentral.com/news/local/child-struck-by-stray-bullet-during-new-year-celebration
Indiana boy, dad, shot when gun discharges while wrestling
I hope they do identify him And I hope it’s because he’s charged with manslaughter or whatever the appropriate terms for this kind of negligence causing serious injury.
No, I don’t give a fuck that it’s father and son. This was not an unforeseeable accident; charge him with the crime, please.
It’s amazing how often we’re told, “guns don’t just go off when they’re dropped” in spite of all the times they seem to do exactly that.
Yup. 'merican gun fetish.
Is there Instagram in prison?
Teen suspected of killing 2 in San Antonio shooting promotes Instagram during arrest
A 19-year-old man facing capital murder charges recited his Instagram account to reporters during his arrest, calling himself an “an upcoming artist.”
Technically that’s not “stupid gun news”, just general “stupid criminal news”.
Guess he had to protect himself from that toddler! 
He really does need to be charged. None of that “suffered enough” crap. If it had been a babysitter that was concealed carrying and the gun went off, people would be calling for the babysitter’s head. If you can’t control the deadly weapon you are carrying, you shouldn’t be allowed to carry it anymore.
I guess he felt threatened all the time, enough to risk carrying a deadly weapon on his body at all times. That is sad. Great going dad. You really protected yourself and your family!
No, that is only when dropped on a hard surface. Note this part that quarryBo quoted:
So, just be careful around soft surfaces, where, as we know, pistols can shoot unexpectedly.
What if there was a home invasion right while they were wrestling? Without having that gun right on hand, the two might have been hurt by the invaders!
What about that guy who was dancing at a bar and his gun fell off him and went off? I think he was perhaps an FBI agent or similar. I’m not able right now to look up the details but can do so later if needed.
I don’t know anything about guns so don’t know if the “safety” (whatever that is) could have malfunctioned or what.
I was being maybe a little sarcastic. These guns are not supposed to go off except when you want them to. There was a story some while back about a gun that went off and injured a mail handler (who ships a loaded gun with a chambered round?), which was supposed to be designed with a hammer plate so that there could be no shell contact without the trigger being pulled, but, somehow that failed.
AAUI, there are two kinds of safeties. The active kind is a lever that the user has to engage or disengage to lock the trigger. The passive kind is supposed to prevent accidental discharge with an elaborate mechanism that must have a trigger pull for the required parts to get to the shell. What I suspect happened is that the trigger became involved with some bedding and the wrestling action finished the job.
But it still fails to address the issue of the level of paranoia that drives a person to feel the need to have a gun on himself every waking moment (and probably close at hand while sleeping). It seems unfortunate to me that these powderkegs survive as long as they do.
I totally agree.
However, the idea that a gun can go off accidentally in a fairly easy manner just adds another layer of insanity to it, in my view. Why is it that guns are forgiven for this? Other weapons wouldn’t be accepted this way, I don’t think. Nobody would want to carry a small bomb on themselves all the time that “probably” won’t go off if it gets jostled or dropped. I guess because a gun’s purpose is viewed as attacking someone else whereas a bomb can hurt anyone near it. But a gun can also do this.
He was an FBI agent and IIRC was doing inebriated back-flips at an alcohol bar. I think the gun might have been a Glock for which lack of a safety is considered a feature. (Who can spare an extra second to switch the safety off when a Muslim jumps out of a closet?)
I remember the incident because I posted something like “If he didn’t want to leave the gun in his car, couldn’t he at least have removed the round from the chamber?”
That earned me rebukes from several Dopers. I was a complete ignoramus — the idea that anyone would carry a pistol without a round already in the chamber was too absurd for discussion.
There would be many fewer gun accidents if it weren’t for this peculiar obsession of keeping a gun cocked and ready-to-fire at all times. (It takes about one second to cock a Glock, and the distinctive sound and action would serve as warning that you mean business. I guess for American Neo-Gunslingers the way to warn that business is meant is a bullet penetrating your victim’s heart.)