Where is common sense at when you need him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dh9pphlIQWho thought that was a good idea.
It was a human engineered incident. Dad probably took his daughter to the shooting range, they rented an uzi. Dad probably thought he would let his kid have a good time by letting her shoot the uzi. Dad behind the camera, instructor up there with the girl. Girl who is not experienced at all full the triggered, not being use to the recoil held onto that thing and lost control and ended up hitting the man.
The video pretty covers what I have to say. You don't give a fire-arm that requires a little bit of experience to a in-experienced shooter. I would start that girl off with a bb gun, then a .22 rifle, then a .20 guage shotgun. It's like a set of weights. You start small and work your way up. You don't walk in a stick man and try lifting the 400lb weights on the first day.
I don't think the problem is that we are giving young people guns. I think the problem is we are doing the whole "guns for everybody" thing incredibly wrong, and thus, these types of things happen. You'd also think that with the price of ammo these days, violent gun related crime would drop.
Crim Justice major here, Violent crime has dropped a lot over the years. Even though most of your victims aren't really victims to begin with. Most of them are just rival gang members who kill each other with illegally obtained weapons and ammo. Illegal weapons and ammo are mostly stolen, or smuggled into the country and state. The smaller percentage of gun violence is self defense, domestic violence(Scot Peterson), committed during the heat of passion(killing the man sleeping with your wife), and Self Deletes.
While the girl cannot be charged for murder or manslaughter, the range could possibly fined for allowing the child to operate such a weapon. However if not that, then this incident is not a crime. The family of the instructor could probably sue the range if they can build a good enough case.
It also makes me sick that people are trying to spin this to feed their political agendas. Even if they ban firearms, it is not going to bring that man back from the dead. What a lot of those people fail to realize is that even in Canada, the UK, and Australia you can still own a firearm. Yet those countries get cited all the time as the best antigun countries in the world. "Hey guys, UK has no guns. Fewer deaths than USA!" *ignores the fact you can still have a firearm, also ignores the large number of assaults/batteries*
