The child should've also carried a gun to protect themselves from bad wedding officiants.
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The only thing that stops a bad pastor with a gun is a good toddler with a gun.
Child molesters hate you right now
Houchin said Gardner accidentally shot a child in the shoulder. They were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Also, it was a blank, so the kid doesn't have a bullet hole. None of this excuses wielding a firearm irresponsibly in a crowd of people, and I'll take "Trigger discipline" for $200, Alex. Just wanted to bring to the fore that the kid will be okay.
A home made blank from glue and gunpowder lmao
What are you some kind of city boy that buys his blanks at the store?
Blanks can kill, ask Brandon Lee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death
In a film shoot prior to the fatal scene, the gun that was used as a prop (a real revolver) was loaded with improperly made dummy rounds, improvised from live cartridges that had the powder charges removed by the special effects crew, so in close-ups the revolver would show normal-looking ammunition. However, the crew neglected to remove the primers from the cartridges, and at some point before the fatal event, one of the rounds had been fired. Although there were no powder charges, the energy from the ignited primer was enough to separate the bullet from the casing and push it part-way into the gun barrel, where it got stuck—a dangerous condition known as a squib load.
During the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 ft), the dummy cartridges were replaced with blank rounds, which contained a powder charge and the primer, but no solid bullet, allowing the gun to be fired with sound and flash effects without the risk of an actual projectile. However, the gun was not properly checked and cleared before the blank was fired, and the dummy bullet previously lodged in the barrel was then propelled forward by the blank's propellant and shot out the muzzle with almost the same force as if the round were live, striking Lee in the abdomen.[101][102]
So two blanks, one with no powder and the other with no bullet, effectively formed one round of live ammunition. What a truly wild story.
And also "not pointing a gun toward a crowd" discipline.
It says they meant to point it upward and it slipped but "not drawing a gun in a crowd" would have been better.
If the kid had a gun, that wouldn’t have happened, right? AMiRiTe?
Depends on if he's a good kid or a bad kid, because it's good people with guns that stop bad people with guns apparently...
who the fuck has guns at their wedding?
Who the fuck uses a gun to get someone’s attention?
Track and field race officials.
But they use special starter pistols.
I would say Texans, but idiots is more apt.
If only there has been a good officiant with a gun!
Tell me you're from Texas without actually telling me you're from Texas
That's not fair to every other state that fought for slavery.
Had the child been armed, this tragedy would have never occurred. 'Murica!
I go to a wedding and I take with me...
A gun!
Only in America!
Aren't there countries where multiple people fire AK47s in the air after a wedding?
Right, there are. None of those countries merit emulation. On the contrary, they're blueprints for what not to do, so...
It is no accident if a person carries a gun with no real reason to do so.
Fucking backward degenerates.
fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.
He f-ing what? Even if he didn't shot the child, this man belongs behind bar for sheer stupidity.
Reason No. 4020 for "American people in general should not have access to firearms".
Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.
When did he think it was a good idea? When?
If there is anyone here who has cause to think that I should not have a gun, speak now or forever...BANG.....oh shit, sorry kid!
Makes me think of that scene from the Office when Dwight randomly fires a gun in the air at the start of the rabies awareness race. First time I saw that, I thought, "they sure do know how to exaggerate American culture" but alas, here we are.