This Just Isn't Right!!!

Hi Everyone,

This blog is about one of those story's that just boggles the mind. How could such an incident occur? A complete and utter lack of common sense is the only explanation as to why it did happen.

Last week, a 9 year old girl, while taking gun lessons, accidentally shot and killed her instructor. The little girl was taking lessons, with her parents approval and permission, on shooting a Uzi, sub machine gun. My understanding is that there are settings on Uzi's that can make it a single shot or multiple shot, (semi-automatic) gun. The girl was able to handle the recoil of the single shot mode. But when the instructor switched the gun to semi-automatic mode, the girl was not able to handle the recoil; by being unable to hold the gun facing the target. Instead, she unfortunately allowed the gun to veer off to her left side, where her instructor was standing. In a nano second, the gun fired, and the instructor was shot once in the head and died shortly thereafter.

I feel so sorry for this little 9 year girl, who will most likely be scarred for life, with her vivid memory of what happened. What her parents thinking? That a little girl could handle the recoil of a semi-automatic gun? Obviously the parents used absolutely no common sense in allowing their daughter to shoot this weapon. But also, how is this even legal? But what really amazes me is that the gun range thought this was a good idea. Did you know that there are more restrictions on children being able to ride a roller coaster, (they all have height restrictions) than shooting a very dangerous weapon that can easily and in this case did kill a person?

To add salt to this wound, the NRA, in their infinite wisdom, said that gun ranges need to use more common sense, (now they think about common sense?). A little to late for this instructor and little girl. The NRA also stated, as usual, that the need for more laws restricting this activity is not necessary. That the ranges can self police themselves. Really??? I think not, as evidenced by this incident.

Yes, new laws with age restrictions should be passed asap, so this kind of tragedy can never happen again. Leaving gun ranges to "police" themselves will never happen, especially when there is money to make, trying to teach little children to use weapons that should only be used by adults.

It is time for the NRA to get its act together and stop the insanity!!!

Til next week.

Peter