Nine year old accidentally shoots her instructor

[Jeneral2885]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28948946

Nine year old with Uzi?! Next they get grenade launchers? Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes will be so jealous.

[GeorgeGist]

1. The Tree of Liberty™

needed watering.

[Recursion]

2. As a Marine, I fired I think every automatic weapon used by the US

Submachineguns still scare the hell out of me, for exactly this reason. They have no place in a gun range. They are not accurate, and there is no competitive use of them that I know.

The simple fact is, there is no "accident" that involves a 9 year old shooting an Uzi: there is only deliberate negligence.

I learned to shoot at about that age. And I learned on an age-appropriate weapon: a rimfire .22 rirfle.

[alphafemale]

4. I learned on a .22 as well. That poor kid.

I'm sure most people still have common sense around guns and know how to educate kids to respect and handle them.

Then you have nut cases like this.

And that little girl is going to relive the horror of that moment for the rest of her life. Because her parents are gun cult assholes.

[Jeneral2885]

14. they clearly didnt want her

to play with barbie or dolls.

[exboyfil]

5. I remember that it was a big deal stepping

up from a pellet gun to my single shot 22 rifle about that age. It was special. What nut gives a 9 year old a Uzi. I fired a full auto M16 when I was 17 (after 12 years of firing guns) and the sucker walked on me. Have never fired one since.

[aikoaiko]

19. It was not an age appropriate weapon.

There are competitive machine gun shoots but full auto weapons are usually at ranges for rental purposes.

The range instructor should have had his gloved hand on the barrel at all times if he was going to allow that small child to shoot that.

I too learned at that age to shoot on single shot 22lr rifles (not pistols) and moved up to 10/22s.

It's a damn shame for the girl and the instructors family that the range instructor was not supervising properly or using his judgment to not allow it to happen at all.

[Itchinjim]

3. The only person I feel bad for is the little girl

She's going to have to deal with this the rest of her life. What kind of idiots let a nine year old handle a gun like this? I hope her probably teabagger parents are proud of themselves.

[Jeneral2885]

22. I don't presume

they are teabaggers. Are you jumping the gun to say there are no pro-gun democrats at all?

[deutsey]

6. It's as if tragic stories like the one linked below never happened

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27399337/ns/us_news-life/t/boy-accidentally-kills-self-gun-show/

WESTFIELD, Mass. — An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.

The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club, police Lt. Lawrence Vallierpratte said.

Police said the boy, Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn., was with a certified instructor and called the death a “self-inflicted accidental shooting.”

[Duckhunter935]

8. That is just idiotic

for the parents to allow that girl to fire that full auto Uzi. I learned about that age but it was with a rifle with single rounds and a 410 shotgun. They should have put no more than three rounds in that weapon at the most if they were that insistent on her firing that weapon.

I feel sorry for that girl.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Uzis and children don't belong together!

nuff said

[ileus]

10. What's ironic is he appears

to be trying to avoid a repeat of the incident where a kid that shot himself in the head in the same way several years ago.


She would have been better off starting on a long gun instead of that short barreled pos. Little 9's have recoil...

[Bragi]

23. Yeah, that would solve everything. /nt

[eridani]

11. Stories of age-appropriate gun experience are very helpful to those of us--

--without that experience. Uzis!?!? WTF?!?!?

[AngryAmish]

12. poor girl

[cwydro]

13. Saw the video

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She was so obviously nervous and unsure with the weapon - she should never have been firing it.

[Jeneral2885]

17. So are you saying

she was forced to use it?

[ManiacJoe]

15. Bad choice of Uzi model.

The mini Uzi is very small and hard to hold on to.

Had the girl used a full-size Uzi, she would have been fine. The fault lies with the instructor.

[Jeneral2885]

16. face palm

what does it have to do with the size of the weapon? In the first place, why even a Uzi and not a small pistol? Or even worse, why not teach her to drive first rather than to shoot to kill?

[ManiacJoe]

21. The small size is what got the instructor killed.

The mini uzi is small, hard to hold on to, and hard to control the recoil of.

The full-size uzi is large and heavier, easy to hold onto, and easier to control the recoil of.

A pistol would have been a excellent choice as a first gun to use. A .22 rifle would have been even better.

All that said, firing a full-auto weapon can be a lot of fun when you can do it safely.

[butterfly77]

18. Oh Well..

"They cling to their guns"

[Jeneral2885]

20. expected response from the NRA

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/27/nra-reacts-year-uzi-shooting-instructor-kids-wanna-fun.html