9-Year Old Kills Firearms Instructor with Uzi
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What in the world is a 9-year old girl doing with an Uzi, under any circumstances? Has no one learned a lesson from past misadventures with children and guns? Really now, think about it. Why are children allowed, nay, encouraged to shoot any kind of weapon, much less assault rifles? Here’s yet another example from Newser of what can happen when kids are given guns:
A shooting range instructor in Arizona is dead after letting a 9-year-old girl fire an Uzi set to fully automatic. Police, who have released a video of the girl taking her first shots, say she safely fired the weapon in “single-shot” mode, but she lost control of the weapon as it recoiled in automatic mode and the instructor was hit by at least one stray bullet as it went over her head, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was “very conscientious and very professional,” the manager of the Last Stop outdoor shooting range tells NBC, asking “everybody to pray for Charlie, and pray for the client, she’s going to have a hard time.” The “practice at most shooting ranges is 8 years old and up with parental supervision,” he says.
The girl was on vacation from New Jersey and her parents were present during the incident on Monday. A firearms safety expert tells the AP that instructors usually keep their hands on the weapon when children fire powerful guns. “You can’t give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it,” he says. A sheriff’s office spokesman says no charges will be filed. “It’s so easy for us to go back and look at something that’s very tragic and say, ‘Boy! Why did that occur? That should not have happened because of,'” he tells KVUU. “Well, maybe from now on, that ‘because of’ will be in place.”
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On British TV last night some high authority figure from the US to do with guns was interviewed (newsnight) he was quite relaxed that 8 year olds could fire these weapons even saying more people get killed in road accidents! The mentality is totally unbelievable. How could anyone with any sense defend a child using guns? They need locking up in a safe secure place with their weapons.
That poor little girl.
You are so right. They need locking up along with their weapons.
Israeli born Uri Geller was once famous in Britain for bending spoons with his mind – or something like that. I misread the title and thought he’d moved onto bigger things!
9 years old? Uzi? Hello!!! Earth calling…..
I have only three things to say about this: STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.
I seem to remember the same thing – well almost the same thing happening last year when a boy shot himself in the head under the same circumstances. 9 year-olds just shouldn’t shoot these things even under supervision. The recoil is too strong and their reaction too unpredictable. I question the wisdom of letting them fire anything more than a BB gun, if that. STUPID!
This doesn’t seem to be much different than Islamic Jihadists teaching young men how to shoot and kill. Did the parents do this thinking that someday their child will need to learn how to shoot a gun? The rest of the world continues to shake its finger at America. Shame on you!
Well said RickRay, and an apt comparison indeed.
Every single adult in that child’s life failed her. Now she has to go through life remembering the horror of that day, all because adults thought that allowing a child to have fun with an Uzi was a good idea? The stupidity and negligence is astounding. Are there that many adults in this country who know nothing about what is best for children anymore? Why aren’t there laws on the books against this sort of child abuse. And THAT’S exactly what this was.
I couldn’t agree more Shaw. It was child abuse, but I also hold the owners of that business accountable as well, because they clearly had no minimum age rules for shooting a “machine gun.” After all even carnivals have rules on how tall you have to be to ride certain rides.
Poor child. And to think, she still has to be raised by the same parents.
I want her parents to go to jail. Or at least lose custody of her. Who thinks that firing an UZI is a recreational activity?
I really want to feel sorry for this guy but I cannot, I’m more upset for that little girl who is going to have to go through life knowing she killed someone. I mean really, was there no thinking about a little girl, or boy, not being strong enough to deal with the jump back and recoil of a weapon like that. WTF happened to think of the children they always go around muttering.
Our country is populated with idiots.
“no charges will be filed”. as it should be, stupid isn’t criminal, it’s just stupid.
it occurs to me….if this had been black people odds are charges would have been filed. being white and stupid is pathetic, being black and stupid is dangerous.
I have to disagree with that Penny. Blacks get charged more often with crimes because they commit crime at a disproportionate rate to their population. Don’t take my word for it: http://bjs.gov and http://fbi.gov
interesting statistics, mike…suggesting one of two things to me. either black people are genetically predisposed to being criminals or the american system is rigged against them.
i honestly believe that had the players in this tragedy been black, then more numbers would have been added to your crime statistics.
Poverty=Crime. More blacks live in poverty than most other minorities for a variety of reasons. Although I have personal opinions as to why I won’t share them.