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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (23 children)

They truly aren’t, this is straight up lack of brain cells that’s the issue here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

So we need to decide who gets guns then, right? Some kind of control?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yeah 100% if you want to own a class of gun (say a revolver) you should have to take a class on that specific type of gun and pass a written and practical test, and renew this regularly. Want a different type of gun? Better go take that class and pass that test.

Rabid anti gun folks are just as bad as the rabid pro gun folks, but the regular ass folks in the middle all seem to agree that strong controls on who can purchase the dangerous tool is the most reasonable solution

But this is lemmy, basically Reddit but more intense. I fully expect the folks here to be rabid anti gun without any rationale arguments for that stance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment seems needlessly inflammatory, almost aggressive. I did not vote on it at all, but I would not be surprised if the downvotes you received were mostly because of that and not due to disagreement with your points.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my bad. I’m tired of every single time a fun in mentioned seeing “just get rid of all of them it’s so easy” then when I reply with reasonable solutions, get shit on. Just tired of it. Shouldn’t have bothered to comment on this thread in the first place

Copy pasted for like the 6th time now:

Yeah 100% if you want to own a class of gun (say a revolver) you should have to take a class on that specific type of gun and pass a written and practical test, and renew this regularly. Want a different type of gun? Better go take that class and pass that test.

Rabid anti gun folks are just as bad as the rabid pro gun folks, but the regular ass folks in the middle all seem to agree that strong controls on who can purchase the dangerous tool is the most reasonable solution

But this is lemmy, basically Reddit but more intense. I fully expect the folks here to be rabid anti gun without any rationale arguments for that stance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are a walking strawman factory 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. I don’t care. I just want to keep my family safe. If that offends you I couldn’t give a fuck less

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm really feeling that lack of general empathy! No surprises here my man.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah nothing but irritation for you folks in this thread

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm personally calling you out for visibly having trouble with empathy in this thread, it's just you and me, don't have to diffuse it with a we like you and I aren't people talking.

I mean you might have an opinion so stupid that you just copy pasted 26 times in the thread, so plenty of other people have noticed how weird it seems and commented on it. But like, that's a you problem yanno?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pasted that because my inbox kept filling up with obnoxious comments that all needed a similar reply, and I don’t care enough to personalize the message a dozen times for folks that aren’t giving r the same courtesy.

Fuck me for coming here expecting to have an actual conversation. In the beginning you could actually chat on lemmy, it was nice. This thread is just like the toxic Reddit I left.

Last time I try to have a conversation here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Last time I try to have a conversation here.

At least something constructive came out of this.

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