Posted on 08/28/2014 7:05:52 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals
A shooting instructor is dead, the victim of a gun-range accident. A 9-year-old girl is surely traumatized. And plenty of people, including many gun enthusiasts, are asking: Why give a child a submachine gun to shoot? Snip
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This is a tough one.
Stoopid “instructor”.....Darwin opines the survival of the fittest...physical, and mental....jus’ sayin’...
Several years ago an adult was killed by his own rifle, an SKS. Stored with the hammer not cocked, the firing pin rusted tight to the bolt.
When he loaded the rifle and released the bolt, the rifle slam fired all ten rounds, the recoil made him lose control and the rifle recoil flipped the rifle back and killed the shooter.
The child did not kill that guy. The instructor caused the gun to go out of control. The girl just did what she was told to do by the instructor.
He should have been holding the weapon with her. Even some adults can’t handle these types of firearms.
Its a shame. The left will use it to push their agenda.
guess that FB post didn’t work out. Sorry to be flippant, but I have to think it was more about the ‘adults’ than the 9 yo that will have to live with this.
The little girl must be traumatized. I am having trouble feeling sympathy for the instructor. Tough one indeed.
I heard from an idiot friend “She murdered him”.
Pathetic
Tho, I did tell him:
“You know, there’s a difference between losing yourself to your wife and losing yourself in her”...
Subtle difference but, it’s there.
Sad but true.
This is almost a suicide.
Some folks like to use any old tragedy.
Truth is not flippant. You are correct.
“The child did not kill that guy.”
Lets not be Clintonesque. Of course the girl killed the guy. Her actions (i.e. inability to operate the firearm) caused the firearm to shoot at unintended directions. Am I asking for her arrest? No. But her parents must be held accountable (in a civil suit). Also, the instructor was a freaking moron. No doubt about that.
It’s definitely Darwin...
But, I told my friend he had, in fact, committed suicide.
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.
A trained Certified NRA Instructors are trained in What form of training or certafication did this person ??
Development Learning is part of Firearms Training.
Yeah, whatever.
What form of training or certafication did this person HAVE ??
Pushing their anti-gun agenda at a time that our society is threatened by ISIS, is sending the wrong signal.
The left had better explain why they want to disarm the American people when its government does not even have a clear plan to defend them.
Are they siding with the terrorists?
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