they said that age 8 is the youngest they would take at the shooting range. My mind boggles at the thought of an eight year old, or any child, handling an uzi.
And the cute title of the place, Bullets and Burgers so trivializes and makes a clever little phrase out of this serious problem.
Saw the video on the internet. They show him adjusting the gun for multiple rounds after her first shot then she recoils from the rapid fire. You can see the gun swerve toward him and they cut. He was standing too up front. She should NEVER have been allowed to discharge such a weapon!
Oh and gun nuts, if these weapons are used for hunting, I want to know hunting what? Seems her target was that of a man.
Poor girl is going to be f*cked for life!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Yup, seems like that instructor may have misjudged two things-trusting that a thin little girl could handle the recoil and standing too far in front of her.
She has liberated him into second amendment martyrdom! That's heroism!!
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Jane2, it is absolutely disturbing. What kind of parents think it's a good idea for a CHILD to not only fire a firearm, but an uzi?!! Like SNAFU said, that girl is f*cked for life.
Hey Dottie!
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Dottie, I think there are parents of children much younger than this little girl, who start their kids on guns.
I know there are people who love guns, love killing animals with them, and love their little tots knowing how to shoot them. I just don't understand it. Bothers me to no end.
Jane I was hoping it was more of a Disney Land kind of thing where the people aren't declared dead until after they are out of "The Happiest Place on Earth". Like that father who had his head bashed in when the cleat from the paddleboat around Tom Sawyer's Island broke free. Bullets and Beers sounds just like Disney for the Right Wing Gun fanatics! I can see the signs now... "You have to be this tall to fire an Uzi!".
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
I really feel for that kid - she's going to be scarred for life. I think I was about her age the first time I fired a gun but it was a single-barreled shot gun at girl scout camp. I saw an interview with another worker at the gun range and he was defending their right to put guns in the hands of children. He sounded like a moron.
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We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
I'm sure mommy and daddy are assuring Little Bonnie Parker that it was not her fault, that it was all part of god's plan and Jesus must have wanted another angel and isn't he lucky being with Jesus now?
Jane, his heart could still be beating and his body breathing, it does not mean he wasn't already gone. I am hoping, for him, he felt and knew nothing.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
The sad thing is, nothing will change. None of these parents will ever accept guns as anything other than expensive toys to play with and the idea of death still will not enter their minds. Hundreds of parents will want to be filmed on TV saying how their children have never harmed anyone shooting their guns and this was simply an "unfortunate accident". Don't punish the Uzi!
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
There was a wingnut on NBC Today stating that he trains his kids to shoot starting at age 5 in case "something happens"! I assumes he is referring to the possibility of a black President!
I guess Holder is not playing the race card when he journeyed to Ferguson.It cuts both ways. Not to much in the news about a African American cop recently shooting an unarmed white kid or the innocent white kid set on fire and burned alive by a group of African American youths who said "This is for Trayon"