Tragic accident. You wouldn't let your 9 year old drive a car but you'll let then shoot an Uzi? Still, for the amount of kids in this country being taught how to fire guns these incidents seem pretty rare. But you know the anti-gun crowd is going crazy over this. Maybe they can also use some of that energy to combat these deadly killers: http://www.oddee.com/item_98002.aspx
I agree on to one part, these people are morons, but I could shoot a pistol at 12, I was also a qualified shooter with a rifle at the same age but I was trained by a Marine instructor and spent hours learning gun safety first so saying 16 years is a little too restrictive. I still have never shot an Uzi and don't intend to, my Mossberg 500 Tactical shotgun with the pistol grip is all I need.
A couple of things: - there are size/age restriction signs on some of the more 'dangerous' amusement park rides - why not the case here? - in the amusement park vein, it looks like a "step right up!" set up. So theoretically, no "background check" potentially means some loon can walk in off the street, pay the cashier and then get his mitts on an Uzi? - sidebar: what's with the Flag of Iceland? (btw/fyi: Iceland is 'loaded' with guns yet has a very low violent crime rate)
Just another American citizen exercising her Constitutional rights. Maybe if the instructor was armed too, he could've defended himself.
Was there any doubt how this would turn out? Only an insane person gives any firearm to a 9 year old.
Maybe a pistol or small calibre rifle, nothing automatic, wouldn't be so bad, I guess as long as someone who actually knows what they're doing is involved. I still think it's kind of pointless and irresponsible. But, keep in mind, I'm Canadian and didn't exactly grow up in gun culture. I have one co-worker that I know has a gun for hunting but he mostly uses a crossbow anyway. That's it. Maybe other people have them and I don't know about it but only one person I know comes to mind. On a semi-related note: I don't know a single person who has been shot, held up at gun point, had their home broken into, been car jacked or anything like that. I do know one guy that was held up at knife point like 8 years ago...that's about it. But, yeah, more guns should solve the problem.
I understand different upbringing and areas will influence peoples way of thinking. I personally have 2 close friends that were shot and killed, I have been shot, I have 2 other friends that were killed just not with guns. These do not count friends that were in the military. I have actually been shot, stabbed, hit by a car, bit by a coral snake, electrocuted and I am sure there are a few other things I can't think of right now. My gun generally does not leave the house but I do not have a problem with those that legally carry leaving the house with theirs. It is those that carry illegally I have a problem with.
On this point: I grew up in a very tough neighborhood in Washington Heights in the 60's and 70's. I was in more than a few fights and I saw knives come out now and then, although never pointed at me. One of my best friends when I was a young teen was dead by 15. He was stabbed in the stomach during a fight, spent a month in the hospital and recovered, then was punched hard in the stomach by somebody who knew about the prior injury. The punch killed him. In all that time I never saw a gun brandished by anybody. This was probably because I was out of the neighborhood by 16 when my parents finally decided the streets were a bit too mean and sent me away to school - an option that many parents would have loved to have I'm sure. I knew there were guns out there and you'd hear the pop-pop-pop of somebody going off on a roof for target practice but in those days guns were not the plague they have become today.
So wait they weren't training her to be the next Hit Girl from that Kickass movie? Where's Nicholas Cage?
And it is those things that frame how we view things later. Unfortunately I had to deal with friends being murdered, I moved to Florida after I got shot and had another friend killed here in Sanford. Maybe I am just unlucky that way but such is life. I just don't want to have to ID another body at the morgue which was something that still flashes through my mind at times.
Good job Jetaho! /twerps who don't post here anymore P.S. There isn't a thread here dedicated to morons (Rottweilers) that left. LOL.
Come on man. My cousin is pre med and spent her early vacation days with a shit-smelling ex army tard teaching her how to clear an AK.
Gun violence was on the rise in the 60's and 70's. It peaked in the 80s and early 90s and has dropped dramatically in the least 20 years. http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/ The idea that this story is somehow relevant to the gun control or gun violence debate seems silly to me. It's a tragedy that could have easily been prevented if not for pure stupidity. how does this guy even have a fucking uzi?
Because the sports club/shooting range he works for has Uzi's for rent to allow their paying customers to blow off some steam? The real question is how it's legal to put a fully automatic weapon with live ammo in the hands of a 9 year old child. This is not a related story but it's indicative of the mindset that we're operating under at this point in history. I know a kid whose family does not approve of handgun ownership (surprise, surprise). Recently one of the parents was browsing Facebook and discovered that the kid had setup an account there. The account portrait was the kid holding a .44 Magnum up with one hand and pointing at the camera with the other. The family lets their kids play with AirSoft guns because you can't stop that in this culture at this point in time. We've become obsessed with guns. They're over-marketed and particularly to kids via all the FPS shooters and it's hard to say no when they want a BB gun. This gun looked different though. It didn't have the tell-tale orange or red protrusion from the barrel. It wasn't marked in any other way to indicate that it was a toy. So the parent did a little research with a friend and they discovered that the gun was a real .44 Magnum. When the kid was confronted with the photo he said that he had gone over to a friends house and the friends father had taken them out into the backyard to do some target shooting. He told them the gun in the picture was loaded and the picture was taken just before he fired it for the first time. At no point during this process did the other parent ask the kid if he was allowed to hold a loaded gun. At no point did he contact the kid's parents to ask if it was ok for their child to be in the presence of a loaded gun, let alone to handle it or fire it. The parents finally decided that the only way to deal with this was to forbid their kid from hanging out with this friend, who they barely knew and whose parents they had met only once at a social function. The kid was very upset. The parents were fuming though. The family in question was just a normal suburban family and yet somehow their kid had wound up holding and firing a .44 Magnum handgun without them ever being involved in the decision. He was 12 years old.
I may be ignorant of some laws ... my understanding was that automatic weapons were illegal and have been for some time.
