What do you mean ‘bad way to lose your life’?
He most likely died doing what he loved.
Not many people have that good fortune.
I don't know if that is true or not. You can see him state his reasons for carrying his firearm in this video.
We would all be better off if the fools marching for Antifa realized they are just puppets of the globalist Marxist elites. I suspect his widow would rather have her husband back than be feeling the results of their folly today.