Shooting Instructor Fatally Shot by 9-year-old Student

[superpatriotman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/charles-vacca-shooting-instructor-dies-9-year-old_n_5717603.html

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/26366694/police-gun-instructor-killed-after-shooting-by-girl

An Arizona shooting instructor has died after a 9-year-old student accidentally shot him in the head.

Charles Vacca, 39, was pronounced dead on Monday, according to a press release from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. Vacca was an instructor at Bullets and Burgers, an outdoor shooting range about 25 miles away from Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Investigators say he was shot with an automatic Uzi around 10 a.m. Monday while teaching a 9-year-old to use the gun. When she pulled the trigger, recoil sent the weapon flying over her head.

Vacca was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital where he died of his injuries.

The girl was at the range with her parents, according to Fox 5.

[Codeine]

1. Every kid needs full auto. Jebus. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. "Bullets and Burgers"?

Was this a Simpsons parody or real life?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. It's a family experience. nt

[spanone]

34. have a burger, shoot your instructor

this fucking nation is insane

[Rex]

3. Okay...wtf...was he doing teaching a 9 year old how to fire an Uzi?

RIP.

Whatever happened to BB guns?

[phantom power]

4. A 9 year old with an uzi

Not a BB gun. Not a .22 plinker. A goddamned uzi.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. A teabagger soldier-in-training. nt

[Scuba]

6. Nine year old with an Uzi. What could go wrong?

[Rex]

15. Up next? Teaching a 12 year old how to fire a bazooka.

[cyberswede]

7. Awful.

I don't really think 9 year olds need to shoot Uzis - I hope the little girl isn't traumatized.

[hlthe2b]

18. She shot and killed someone... I don't know how she could NOT be traumatized...

Sigh.... once again proof that common sense is NOT instinctive...

[tblue37]

9. A young boy similarly lost control of--I think it was an Uzi, also--at a gun show a year

or two ago, only that child ended up killing himself. His father and the gun "expert" let him try it out, and he ended up dead.

A small child isn't strong enough to handle the forces in a weapon like that, and those so-called experts should know it!

[PoliticAverse]

22. Yes it was an Uzi also, machine guns are hard to control...

It was 2008 in Massachusetts, see:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/father-christopher-bizilj-died-firing-uzi-urged-son/story?id=12565132

[msanthrope]

23. And the father was a doctor. A doctor, for crissakes. nt

[Hoyt]

11. Daddy introduces his 9 year-old daughter to the callous gun culture. Bodes well for future.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Bullets and Burgers

America baby!

Fuck ya!

[Blue_Tires]

13. So after all this time, people still haven't learned shit:

Same age, same weapon, same kind of venue, and same circumstances of death...The only difference is the gender of the kid and the state where it occurred:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x188632

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x344096

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x353082

[hlthe2b]

14. Allowing a child near such a gun at that age, especially--ought to land the parents in court IMO...

[rjj621]

16. Darwin award winner

What the hell is a 9 year old doing shooting an Uzi?!? I feel sorry for the kid, I can't begin to image how this incident will affect her.

[JI7]

17. the 9 year old is the victim in all of this

the "grownups" should never have put her in this situation.

[Scuba]

20. Bingo!

[Rex]

26. She might have nightmares about this for the rest of her life.

All so someone could live out some sick prepper fantasy is my guess.

[enough]

31. Absolutely. Hope the adults in her life understand this.

But then, given that they did put her in this situation, the outlook doesn't seem good.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

32. They do not have the capicity to understand anything a reasonable would. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Bullets and Burgers?

I'll stick to my painting and wine sipping classes, thank you.

[CBGLuthier]

21. If I honestly and truly say that I literally Laughed Out Loud

Will DU take offence and hide it? Because for once the right person got hurt. The idiot that thought a motherfucking Uzi belonged in the hands of an 9 year old. Better him than the kid like that asshole a few years ago did with his kid.

Shame the girl will be traumatized by the foolishness of adults but that is life in these here royally-fucked up United States.

[IdaBriggs]

24. Thank God the child wasn't physically injured by this irresponsible moron.

I hope she recovers from the trauma.

Poor little girl!

[Contrary1]

29. That would be "morons"

Mom and Dad were present. I would guess that they approved of the lunacy.

[IdaBriggs]

30. Correction noted and agreed with! nt

[msanthrope]

25. I hope child proctective services were called. nt

[vankuria]

27. This makes me sick

the parents should hang their heads in shame for allowing this and the "Bullets and Burgers" place should be shut down for being so irresponsible. This poor kid will probably be traumatized for life because of the stupid adults that subjected her to this.

[BaggersRDumb]

28. Nine year olds shooting Uzi's, in America, for fun...I wish I felt bad about the outcome

[MindPilot]

33. An UZI!?

I'm six-foot, 160 pounds, and I don't think I would have enough ass to hold down an uzi.

If someone let a 9-year old drive a backhoe, people would be screaming for child protective services. But a machine gun in full auto? meh!

[stevenleser]

35. If only there was a good guy with a gun to... erm...

[moondust]

36. Good shot, kid.

That's one less idiot with disastrously poor judgment endangering the public.

[bluesbassman]

37. Locking. Does not adhere to GD SOP for national news.

Consider re-posting in Gun Control & RKBA.