re: #190 Shiplord Kirel

What makes the Arizona shooting all the more amazing and tragic is that this is the second time in recent years that a child has killed someone while shooting an Uzi in a supervised environment. The child himself was the victim in the 2008 incident, after various fools allowed him to try to shoot a Micro-Uzi. The latter, of course, is harder to control than the standard version and is really a weapon for specialized professionals.

To hit a similar level of negligence, one would have to stretch a bit. How about drunk driving school? (HT Onion) Open tryouts for the Blue Angels?
There are guns for the very young, not big caliber and not full auto. airguns, .22 maybe.

Just to illustrate the diff between what is proper instruction and what happened-How do you teach an experienced adult full auto? You use ten or 20 magazines. You as the instructor stand so close you can redirect the gun if needed. The first mag has two rounds. So does the second. Then 3 shots. Repeat until the 3 shots are all on the paper if not the exact middle. Then 5 rounds until that happens. See where I’m going?

Now everyone with a gun, or a range to run, or a training school trying to do the right thing has to live with the stain of that accident caused by negligence of the worst kind.