A Texas grandfather who was about to officiate a wedding in Nebraska errantly shot and wounded his own 12-year-old grandson when he tried to fire a gun in the air to get the attention of guests Saturday, according to authorities.
Odessa, Texas resident Michael Gardner, 62, is facing legal trouble after the Pietta 1860 snub nose revolver went off around 5 p.m. and accidentally struck the young boy in the shoulder at Hillside Events, Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Ben Houchin said during a press conference Monday.
The gun fired a blank round that had black powder in the casing that was glued together, the sheriff’s official said.
Before the attention-catching shot, guests were scattered around the Denton, Nebraska venue because the nuptials started late after someone forgot the wedding rings, Houchin explained.
“When he decided to cock back the hammer of this revolver it slipped and it shot his grandson in the left shoulder, causing an injury,” Houchin said, later adding. “What we believe is the glue injured the child.”
The injury was non-life threatening, though the boy still required hospitalization.
“We do not believe Michael intended to hurt his grandchild, but the act was not very smart,” Houchin said.
Gardner was still slapped with a child abuse charge because of the carelessness and the injury to the youngster, the chief deputy said. He surrendered to authorities Monday.
“It’s just kind of neglectful to take a gun out that has blanks and fire it amongst people,” he said.
Who carries a gun to a wedding?
Texas
Nevermind
If it was the other way around:
Texas
Who doesn’t carry a gun to a wedding?
Top three mythological creatures of American folklore:
- Bigfoot
- Mothman
- The Responsible Gun Owner
I don’t think that’s fair. I’ve taken gun/hunting education classes from some volunteer instructors that seemed to me to be about the most serious, responsible people I’ve ever met.
Cool beans. Everyone considers themselves to be a “responsible gun owner” right up until the moment they shoot someone or themselves. It’s not a matter of if but when it’s going to happen.
Edit: Gun nuts and apologists line up here to get blocked.
Actually, as someone who doesn’t have a strong stance either way, maybe I’ll just block you.
k bye
Made me think of the is this a pigeon meme but the person being replaced with an American gun nut and the image being a referee to gun violence
With the text: “is this a responsible gun owner”
Go ahead and block me too.
You’re saying all gun owners have incidents at some point, but that’s just availability bias. You don’t see stories on the news of the millions of gun owners who never have incidents.
I have also taken gun safety classes and never had an incident. My guns live in a safe and are only taken out when it is time to use them for sport, which hasn’t been in over a decade, actually.
No responsibile gun owner would use a gun firing to get the attention of a group, so the “all gun owners are responsible until there’s an incident” argument doesn’t really hold water here. The guy in the story broke several gun safety rules here. Rules that in my 10+ years of gun use I have never broken once.
Edit: not sure why this old post showed up in my feed. Oh well.
Go ahead and block me too.
Done. And no, I didn’t read the rest of your multi-paragraph little hissy fit over a MONTH OLD POST. I despise gun nuts because they’re always the type of person like you that will butt into a months-old conversation you weren’t part of in the first place because you go around the internet compulsively defending your gun fetish. Fuck off, Cletus.
I didn’t realize it was a month old. Lemmy’s algorithm is bad.
The key word there is “seemed”
Which is he, one of the ‘good guys with a gun’, or one of the ‘bad guys with a gun’?
I believe he falls in the category of one of the morons with a gun.
I’d like to see that venn diagram.
‘Facing legal trouble’. Yeah, because that’s really the only negative in this situation 🤦♂️
This guy shot at the air and somehow managed to miss. He should be barred from ever owning a firearm for being such a spectacularly bad shot.
Well, he technically shot the air too.
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There is no such thing as a “responsible” gun owner in the US.
I inherited 3 guns from my father in law. They stay locked in the safe. Where am I irresponsible?
Are you legally required to do so? What penalties do you face if you don’t? Should we drop all DUI laws because you claim you’ll never drive drunk?
No. shrug what penalties will you face if you go touch some grass?
People aren’t killing rooms full of children with grass.
The pro-gun community works hard to ensure the “responsible” part remains 100% voluntary.
Buttwipe should have his gun rights revoked. Even I, a non-gun-user, know that you treat every firearm as loaded, lethal and ready to fire at any moment, and never point it at any person ever unless you intend them dead.
Accidents with guns only happen because of criminal negligence.
And for fuck’s sake you don’t cock a gun or pull the trigger when it’s pointed at a fucking child. you. stupid. pile. of. shit.
