Full-automatic weapons should be surgically implanted at birth.
Isn’t it already illegal for children to shoot automatic weapons?
Full-automatic weapons should be surgically implanted at birth.
IT IS STUPID TO TRY TO PASS A LAW TO PREVENT STUPID.
Might as well try to make common sense mandatory.
Yes, lets outlaw stupidity.
No law can fix poor judgment on that level. Sticking an Uzi in the hands of a small child is off-the-charts dumb.
The Range Officer was not in control of the range.
It does not matter if the shooter is 9 or 99, the RO is there to ensure such things do not happen.
The instructor chose about the most dangerous fully auto weapon for a child to shoot, due to its light weight and short barrel. He also had her shooting offhand rather than at a bench, which would have been much safer. Finally, he stood over her left shoulder, exactly where the recoil would naturally take the muzzle if she lost control.
I don’t think young children shooting full auto weapons is a great idea, but it can probably be done more safely than a child riding a bicycle, if common sense and basic firearms knowledge are employed.
Were the Congress to pass laws based soley upon single incidents, we would have billions of laws preventing everything in this country. We have far too many as it is, for all intents and purposes, more then ever could be read by any single person. Nature has her way of culling the herd.
Palestinians teach 5 year old to fire full auto. And cut off heads.
Got to raise the age for cutting off heads.
They are so much more advanced than we, peace loving and all.
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Oh, please. Their dad made a careless error. Shame that, but another law will fix nothing.
Can’t the parents just say no?
Why do they require the government to say no for them? Wimpy and effeminate people can’t just say no.
I feel for this man’s family, I truly do, but the poor girl is the real victim here, she was failed, failed by every adult around her that day, her parents failed her, the people running the gun range failed her, and lastly and saddest of all the instructor who was killed failed her.
No one, and I do mean no one should have remotely thought its a good idea to put a submachine gun in the hands of 9 year old, who does not have the strength or experience to be handed such a weapon.
There doesn’t need to be a law to prevent this, just adults with some modicum of common sense, which sadly seems to be in short supply these days.
When you hand an Uzi to a child of 9 and they shoot you with it, its called suicide.
Examples:
The list goes on and on.
Why would ANYONE hand a sub machine gun to a 9 year old girl? Except perhaps to defend against zombies.
Translation. We liked the publicity and this is a way for us to extend our 15 minutes of fame.
Yes, and check the instructor for stupid.
I’m okay with that. I don’t think we should give children to automatic weapons, they are not equipped to care for children.
The law should not get involved. None of my kids fired fully automatic until they were adults because I decided they shouldn’t. That instructor made a bad decision with a little girl (and the parents did too), and he died for it, but it was his place (and the parents) to decide.
Because common sense isn't enough I guess.
The magazine disconnect was invented by a CA politician who’s child was killed by of the guns which h3 had not secured. Because of his incompetence, we are all suffering.