Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding's officiant, fired a gun to get everyone's attention.

A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says.

Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said deputies were sent to a wedding at Hillside Events near Denton on a report of a gunshot wound.

Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.

“He was going to fire in the air, and as he did that, it slipped and went off,” Houchin said.

The gun was loaded with a blank that Gardner made with gunpowder and glue.

    • jackoneill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      413·
      1 year ago

      I live in a bad neighborhood and have had to defend my family against fucking armed meth heads trying to break into my house and harm my wife and son. The police are completely useless. I am a cripple and can’t fight. If I didn’t have a gun we’d all be dead by now.

      If you try to take the guns away in this country, you’ll take them from law abiding folks like myself that use them for self defense but not the criminals we need to defend ourselves from

      Maybe if we had real police that actually protect and serve we could be in the same page. As long as the police are worse than useless and every junkie criminal has a gun, the rest of us need one too

      You think I want to raise my kid in a world where everybody is armed?!? Fuck no! This sucks! It’s better than being dead though. That’s the alternative. If you’ve had the privilege to live your life in safe areas that’s great! Not everybody does.

      • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        1 year ago

        armed meth heads

        Huh … because of guns? You need guns because other people have guns?

        So if there were no guns … you wouldn’t need a gun?

        As someone from a country with sane gun control. Not once in my entire life have I wished to have a gun to defend myself with against other people.

        I don’t even live in a “good” area. But because guns aren’t exactly legal, there are very few guns around at all.

        This is an entirely workable solution as almost every other western country has demonstrated. America is just obsessed with owning (to use your words) “tools” to murder each other with.

        You know what happens when guns are actually restricted? They become difficult to get for everyone. Going by the logic “banning guns means only criminals have guns”, do you ever wonder why other countries don’t have a huge crimimal-gun-problem? Because its a myth perpetuated by gun nuts.

        The average person in modern society should have no reason to own a gun.

        America is just psychotic

        • jackoneill@lemmy.worldEnglish
          216·
          1 year ago

          Try to follow along. You can’t take the guns away from the criminals in this country. There are more guns than people. We are not an island. We are literally swimming in guns. I don’t like it, but if you try to take them away YOU WON’T TAKE THEM AWAY FROM THE METH HEADS you will only make it harder for law abiding citizens to defend themselves

          If you could magically get rid of all the guns, sure! Let me know when you figure that out