Natural Selection at work

[Rudeboyelvis]

I don't know, maybe it wasn't the most brilliant idea in the world to "teach" a 9yo how to handle semi-automatic weaponry? Unfortunately, this poor girl is going to be traumatized by the whole experience, one of which she probably never wanted any part of anyway - not that a 9 yo should be able to make that decision by herself, but I digress...

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us...ss_igoogle_cnn

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

I don't know, maybe it wasn't the most brilliant idea in the world to "teach" a 9yo how to handle semi-automatic weaponry? Unfortunately, this poor girl is going to be traumatized by the whole experience, one of which she probably never wanted any part of anyway - not that a 9 yo should be able to make that decision by herself, but I digress...

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us...ss_igoogle_cnn

i first saw the story two days ago, on slate. unreal. the instructor was at fault, followed closely by the poor girls parents. and it's the kid who will be the who needs therapy.
i was reading an article this morning about all the tourist places set up to shoot various weapons. that's all well and good...but who puts an uzi on full auto for a nine year old?!
i said at the time that the guy committed suicide by stupidity.
i'm just glad the kid didn't get hurt; a genius gave a nine year old boy one of these guns to shoot at a gun show, kid killed himself when he lost control of the gun.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i first saw the story two days ago, on slate. unreal. the instructor was at fault, followed closely by the poor girls parents. and it's the kid who will be the who needs therapy.
i was reading an article this morning about all the tourist places set up to shoot various weapons. that's all well and good...but who puts an uzi on full auto for a nine year old?!
i said at the time that the guy committed suicide by stupidity.

Whoever (the Owner?) made up the rules that a 9-year old girl be allowed to fire a fully automatic weapon is at fault.

The instructor was doing his job albeit poorly and the parents are obviously idiots. Hopefully they do the right thing and cease from breeding anymore future idiots.

[GenuineRisk]

The late instructor's Facebook page includes some interesting highlights:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/08/26/bitter-irony/

Soooo... for all his braggadocio, he was killed by a nine-year-old girl (since he says guns don't kill people, people kill people). And a nine-year-old, according to him, is a killer. Nice.

That said, it f*cking sucks that a kid has no dad because that dad was a total ammosexual. Sucks. I just feel sick for that poor fatherless kid. And terrible for his widow. Vacca, of course, is beyond pain, but they'll have a lifetime of it.

And I am considering blocking the feed of the husband of a friend of mine on FB, who proudly made his 4-year-old daughter pose for pictures looking through the barrel of his automatic weapon, with an angry post that anyone who didn't like it should take him off their friends list. I guess I should respect his wishes. Le sigh.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Whoever (the Owner?) made up the rules that a 9-year old girl be allowed to fire a fully automatic weapon is at fault.

The instructor was doing his job albeit poorly and the parents are obviously idiots. Hopefully they do the right thing and cease from breeding anymore future idiots.

According to authorities, no one is as fault because the place was licensed and operating legally. It was just one of those things. Like how the pregnant woman killed by her friend was just one of those things.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local...ille/13244051/

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

According to authorities, no one is as fault because the place was licensed and operating legally. It was just one of those things.

I'm sure the civil court will have something to say.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I'm sure the civil court will have something to say.

Civil cases are brought by private citizens. Who's going to sue? The dead man's family? It's the only ones I can see making sense, but I find it hard to believe a court will buy that the guy was pressured into this by his job, judging from his ammosexual history which is easily accessible on Facebook and which, I have no doubt, Burgers and Bullets has now saved to hard drives. Who else? The parents suing for their daughter's trauma seems a little crazy, as they were clearly complicit, seeing as how they videoed the thing.

Though this is America, where our motto is not "In God We Trust" so much as it is, "I'll Sue!". So, you never know. But it's not the state that brings civil cases, though they sometimes partner with private citizens. Usually that is in a case of civil rights violations, but I find it hard to believe there's any grounds for that here.

[dellinger63]

Hope she doesn't get assigned a "What I Did Over the Summer" paper to write.