He should not have been there and with a gun period.
That was just asking for it.
What was that old movie line?
“What we have here is failure to communicate Some men, you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don’t like it any more than you men”.
Now we’ll never know if he can eat 50 eggs.
Cool Hand Luke.