I got really ticked off while reading one of yesterday’s top online news stories. You’ve probably heard about it, too. An eight-year-old Connecticut boy accidentally shot himself at a gun show, trying to plug a pumpkin with a loaded Uzi--under the so-called supervision of his father and a gun instructor. According to the police report, the front end of the fully automatic machine gun kicked upward with the backfire, called a recoil, and the kid received a round of ammunition in his head.
The father (who is, go figure, a hospital director of emergency medicine) was baffled. He was quoted as saying, “This accident is truly a mystery to me….I really don’t know why it happened.”
Well, helloooooo! I’ll tell you why it happened. Because that gun instructor and you are idiots for allowing an 8-year-old to shoot an Uzi! That’s why. There’s no mystery to it. Now, since I’m not a parent myself, I usually keep my big, critical mouth shut when it comes to ideas on raising children. But anyone with a lick of sense knows that a child has no business holding a loaded Uzi, let alone being encouraged to shoot it. And, listen to this, the doctor dad was getting his camera ready to take a picture of his little boy playing grown-up pumpkin assailant when the incident happened. What were these people thinking? Morons…total morons. What a shame.
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I did read that and I just am upset about it. I wonder what the mom says. ;( I see divorce in their future.
This hacked me off too! It said the boy was certified to shoot or some crap too! What?! Rather than teaching him to ride a bike did they start him out at the shooting range! Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids! This is sad & ridiculous!
and why does ANYONE (aside from the police and military) have an Uzi? i know, i know---all the NRA folks---i think it's fine to have weapons for hunting and self-defense if that's your thing---but the ONLY thing an Uzi is for is to KILL PEOPLE!!!
whatever happened to bb guns? at least the kid would be alive with an eye patch
You have to be 14 in the Boy Scouts to shoot a gun, on an inspected range, usually into a hillside, with an NRA certified instructor at your side with an assistant and no more than three other boys on the range at the time. It may often also be using black powder and a flint lock gun, definitely, NOT EVER, an automatic weapon.
Taking an eight year old to a gun show in the first place is a little sick.
I'm a certified NRA member and shooter, carry my permitted concealed loaded weapon most of the time and do not condone this behavior at all.
Most people like me would never buy a gun from a gun show and only from a known local dealer whose reputation you have referenced.
Unfortunately, this is not the most irresponsible thing I have heard a parent do, and it doesn't even make the top ten. And probably worse things are done to children within the confines of your own community so you don't have to search very far to find incidences of child abuse--which is what this was.
Looked up the specifics of this article. It took place in Mass., where children are allowed to shoot with parental permission. It actually was not at a gun show but at an event gun club. Is being investigated but I believe they will find some irregularities. Connecticut regulations are much different. Things go on at gun clubs that do not take place outside their environs. Still a tragedy of monumental scope. BB guns hae been outlawed almost everywhere.
My last word. checked with my NRA certified instructor of NRA instructors son. He said he allows only one bullet on the range at a time and it is in the pocket of the NRA and BSA certified instructor 99% of the time with it buttoned shut. AFter a week of gun safety, they get to shoot one round at 14 with parental permission.
He remarked to me that the article did not mention what certification the instructer had. The NRA does not offer certification for instrucors in machine guns at all, nor are they shot at any of their events or gun safety classes, even as a demonstration. Someone brought that UZI into this country under pretty suspicious circumstances and should be tracked down. He also told me what happens at a gun club usually stays at the gun club so there will most probably be a wall of silence. Too bad.
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