My prayers to him and his family. She'll get past the trauma. She'll be fine. We all have bad memories. We learn to bury them to survive.
The context of ALL earthly human life is to die. It’s not whether — it’s when and how. And God has an appointment book for that. One could quibble about rapture events but those doubtless exchange fleshly bodies for heavenly ones, so the fleshly bodies are done away with, i.e. die.
Anyhow I choose the non smoking section for my seat in eternity.
The instructor was doing a stupid thing.
You let a young child drive a go cart, not a race car.
He really wasn’t doing a good thing at all. He was ignoring commonly known safety procedures. There are things which can be done to prevent this sort of accident, including putting the gun on a stand to prevent it from kicking up.
Weapons kick up when they fire. They just do. He knew this, and he decided that he’d take the risk with her life and with his own, and with anyone else’s within firing distance.
I read that Uzis usually pull up and to the right, meaning that the only safety precaution he took was standing to the left. He didn’t do anything to protect those who might be on the other side of the berm, had it pulled and shot to the right like it was “supposed” to.
I’m not glad anyone is dead, but if someone had to die, it should be the one who risked everyone else’s life.
At nine, she will remember this for the rest of her life. Seeing someone take a fatal head shot at very close range will do that.
Our whole family shoots and I would never allow my child to do this sort of thing under these conditions.