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BREAKING: Texas elected Republican is charged with “felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury," after accidentally shooting his own grandson at the start of his nephew’s wedding.

It all started when he was officiating the wedding and decided to “start the wedding off with a bang.”

Unfortunately, the Washington Post reports that when the elected Republican official, Commissioner Ector County Commissioner Michael Gardner, “cocked back the hammer of the gun, it slipped, and the homemade blank that he had used, which was closed off with glue, fired from the Pietta 1860 snub-nose revolver that he had borrowed.”

Tragically, Gardner “accidentally shot his 12-year-old grandson in the shoulder.” The wedding guests gasped in horror as the grandson was quickly rushed to the hospital by an ambulance.

Shockingly, Gardner continued to officiate the wedding while his grandson made his way to the hospital.

Adding insult to injury, the grandson ended up being transferred to a larger hospital to treat his “serious” wound.

To make matters even worse, the Washington Post reports that, “Gardner acknowledged that the gun did not belong to him and that he had not used the firearm before it was accidentally discharged.”

There you have it, folks. An elected Texas Republican official decided to borrow a gun and fire it at his nephew’s wedding without ever even practicing firing the gun himself — and ended up shooting his own grandson and causing him “serious bodily injury — before continuing to officiate the wedding as if nothing happened.

It’s just another day in gun-crazy red state America…

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