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The paper reported that the girl had successfully fired the 9mm weapon several times in “single-shot” mode before Vacca changed the setting to “fully automatic” mode.
In a controlled environment like a well-managed shooting range, I don't see a problem with letting children experience a perfectly legal activity. There are laws surrounding fully automatic weapons that may come into play here, but otherwise, we allow children to engage in supervised risky activity.
I feel sorry for the girl. She's going to blame herself for this, and she has no blame to take on. I hope she gets counseling. Fast and intensive.
This incident is entirely on the instructor. Single fire recoil is NOTHING like full-auto recoil. For the first use, the instructor should have had her arm under control the entire time. And if the facility allows their instructors to simply sit back like this, the facility is at fault, too.
It's ridiculous and stupid. A 9-year-old has no legitimate need to learn to use an Uzi. I'm sorry her parents were idiots to get her involved in this, and I'm sorry they apparently or perhaps obviously chose a complete fuckwit to "instruct" her. I hope CPS looks into this family for the way they exposed their child to devastating trauma. The stupidity of humans knows no bounds.
Just because you shat out a kid, you do not have some right to fuck it all up like this.
Disgusting.
really? You don't have a problem with a 9 year old handling a powerful gun like an Uzi? Why would any responsible parent even consider it acceptable?
I feel sorry for the girl too, but if anyone's to blame it's her parents for even letting her near something like that. They deserve a Darwin award.
They can't get the Darwin award because tragically, they've already procreated.r They deserve a Darwin award.
It's ridiculous and stupid. A 9-year-old has no legitimate need to learn to use an Uzi. I'm sorry her parents were idiots to get her involved in this, and I'm sorry they apparently or perhaps obviously chose a complete fuckwit to "instruct" her. I hope CPS looks into this family for the way they exposed their child to devastating trauma. The stupidity of humans knows no bounds.
Just because you shat out a kid, you do not have some right to fuck it all up like this.
Disgusting.
In a controlled environment like a well-managed shooting range, I don't see a problem with letting children experience a perfectly legal activity. There are laws surrounding fully automatic weapons that may come into play here, but otherwise, we allow children to engage in supervised risky activity.
I don't think anyone is questioning the legality of this. I think what is being questioned is why anyone in their right mind would think it's a good idea for it to be legal.
Well, exactly. Rob said "I don't see a problem with letting children experience a perfectly legal activity". My point was that I do see a problem with it when it's a fucking ridiculous and downright dangerous idea. The legality doesn't make it ok, imho.
This. Anything, legal or not, that is a serious risk of your 9-year-old blowing someone's head off is a bad, bad, bad idea.Well, exactly. Rob said "I don't see a problem with letting children experience a perfectly legal activity". My point was that I do see a problem with it when it's a fucking ridiculous and downright dangerous idea. The legality doesn't make it ok, imho.
In the interest of trying to wrap my head around this, as an outsider Canadian, I have a scenario...
A video exactly the same as the one making its rounds about this tragic story circulates on the internet with a Muslim man teaching a nine-year old Muslim child (or ISIS or WHATEVER) how to work an automatic weapon. Nobody dies.
How irate would people be about the nine-year old waving the automatic weapon? How wrong would it be then?
Might as well go for a soda, nobody drowns and nobody dies...
In the interest of trying to wrap my head around this, as an outsider Canadian, I have a scenario...
really? You don't have a problem with a 9 year old handling a powerful gun like an Uzi? Why would any responsible parent even consider it acceptable?
I feel sorry for the girl too, but if anyone's to blame it's her parents for even letting her near something like that. They deserve a Darwin award.