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Don Zomberg
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Just saw on Yahoo that a gun instructor has been killed when his student lost control of the Uzi she was firing.
Sorry, folks, I'm just too weary to type a link. There's not much more to the story anyway.
And so it goes, as Father Kurt says.
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Mark Tillson
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http://news.yahoo.com/girl-accidentally-kills-gun-instructor -uzi-132037194.html
My thoughts are all over the place. From sadness for the little girl ( and all those involved) for killing her instructor, to anger to the parents for letting their child to use a Uzi, to wonder as to why someone would want to instruct a 9 year old how to use a gun. An Uzi? Really?
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Shaun Barry
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The child, really, is blameless. Common sense dictates the adults involved were none too bright to allow this in the first place.
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Ronald Joseph
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The child, really, is blameless. Common sense dictates the adults involved were none too bright to allow this in the first place.
The upside to this story is that now there's one less jackass out there breeding.
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Don Zomberg
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America--where we're dead-set against lowering the drinking age to 18, but totally okay with children handling weapons of mass destruction.
One nation of ignorant jackasses.
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Brian Peck
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And she is firing at a target outline of a person? What kind of message is
that sending to the kid?
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Robert LaGuardia
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Terrible judgement by all adults involved, and now this little girl has to
live with this for the rest of her life.
Unfortunately, this will be just another news story. If Sandy Hook didn't
change our national infatuation with guns I don't think anything will.
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Charles Valderrama
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This shouldn't happen. A little girl has to live with the memory of having killed a man. THIS is what our Second Amendment rights were meant for??
-C!
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John Byrne
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The drafter of the Second Amendment had never heard of Uzis, or any other gun that could fire more than one round without reloading. This is what the NRA and other gun-fetishists so determinedly ignore. But, hey! The gun killed someone. That's what it was made to do.
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Stephen Robinson
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JB:
But, hey! The gun killed someone. That's what it was made
to do.
SER: This is what bugs me whenever someone refer to this
as a "tragic accident." A gun is designed to kill. That's
its purpose. The moral implication of the act (a child
shooting another child or a homeowner shooting a
homicidal intruder) doesn't alter the functionality.
So, the idea that a child can *correctly* use a device
designed to kill should be horrifying. And that's what is
missed with all the comparisons to automobiles. Put the
average 9-yr-old in a car and it's possible she might not
even be able to start it, let alone physically operate
it. But toddlers can correctly operate guns.
Why can't gun manufacturers fix this? They seriously
can't design guns that only an adult could operate? Or is
that too much trouble for their bottom line?
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Erin Anna Leach
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Guns, so easy a caveman can use one.
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Conrad Teves
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It is puzzling to me why the instructor would have thought such a little girl would have been able to control the recoil on full-auto. He obviously had fired one himself, and would have known a 9mm round will cause a fair amount of muzzle-rise on one shot even when an adult shoots one. At the very least he should have had some concern that there was danger of her shooting over the berm and launching a lot of stray bullets wherever.
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