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The child should've also carried a gun to protect themselves from bad wedding officiants.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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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
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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?
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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.
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The only reason his grandkid is still alive is because he wasn't QUITE stupid enough to put live rounds in his 'attention getter'. What a moron.
I've seen a guy shoot his daughter in the leg at a public outdoor range because he cleared a misfire in his handgun incorrectly. She lived, but goddamn. It only takes a second of inattention to kill someone and it happens all the time. These people do not treat firearms with respect. It's not a fucking noisemaker or a penis replacement. It kills, instantly.
Which is why the rest of the world thinks it's fucking insane how lax gun laws are in the US.
And the rest of the world is right.
I just imagine the internal conversation that morning.
well I could bring a bell, or maybe even an air horn. I want to make sure I can control the group. I guess I could also raise my voice too.
OR…
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This is why, while I support recognizing the right to self defense, I do not support Constitutional carry. Something this dangerous should require regular safety training. I felt the same about driving.
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Blanks are not 100% safe either. A blank is what killed Brandon Lee on the set of the Crow back in the 90s.
Sorta, yep! It happened in two parts - for one scene the gun had homemade cartridges with primer and and an actual bullet, but no gunpowder, so that the ammo looked real in close-ups of the gun. At some point that round was fired and the primer was enough to discharge the bullet, which lodged itself in the barrel.
Then, later on in another scene, they loaded the same gun with blanks full of powder and primer but no bullet, so when fired they'd get the usual bang and flash. Except, since there was a bullet lodged in the barrel, the blank round still had enough force to propel the bullet out the rest of the way and into Brandon Lee.
It happened in such a freaky way that it feels like there must be more to it, but just as likely human stupidity and bad luck.
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See this kinda stuff is why I don't own a real firearm. I grew up with guns in the house, went shooting with friends and my dad. I don't need a way to accidentally kill someone around.
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.
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I would say Texans, but idiots is more apt.
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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
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Had the child been armed, this tragedy would have never occurred. 'Murica!
It is no accident if a person carries a gun with no real reason to do so.
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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?
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Fucking backward degenerates.
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?
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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".
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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.
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!
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