A new southern wedding tradition?

[Bob Juch]

Rather than light a unity candle, the subject bride and groom each fire a gun into the air.

The firing-of-their-guns seems to happen at the same point in their outside wedding ceremony as the lighting-of-the-unity-candle does in more traditional ones, with pastor standing by and reading as they fire — although since the video is only a clip, I have no idea how, exactly, the pastor explained the whole "two become one" thing using bullets rather than flames; or, for that matter, what role the parents of the bride&groom played. Rather than lighting two candles at the beginning of the ceremony to represent the two families, maybe they carried in the "family guns." Who knows?

What I do know is how horrified I am to see the "gun worship" I've so often bemoaned in America becoming literal by slipping into religious ceremonies . . .

and to know that, in a country of 100,000 gun deaths and injuries a year, the video is posted with zero qualification (e.g., "don't worry guys! we used blanks!"; "pellets, not slugs!"; etc.) . . .

Full story: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/2 ... as-Kidding

[jarnon]

Here's another way to use a gun that the authors of the 2nd Amendment never anticipated. If the Army and CIA can do it, why not any redneck?