Firing arms instructor killed by 9 year old

[340pd]

One dead, one life ruined.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...ead/?tid=hp_mm

[TheTman]

I don't think I'd hand too many 9 year olds a full auto Uzi. Maybe some .22 or possibly a .32 converted to full auto, but not a 9mm.

[marcinstl]

"A 9-year-old girl at a shooting range outside Las Vegas accidentally killed an instructor on Monday morning when she lost control of the Uzi he was showing her how to use."
well, another crap, totally wrong news story. this was no accident, there are no gun accidents. the gun fired because something(finger?) moved the trigger. that is properly called, a "negligent discharge". there are no accidents, only negligence. range shootings, cleaning shootings, gun store handling shootings-- all negligent shootings.

[ced_56]

While I am all for showing your kids guns and teaching them respect for them and how to properly use them why does a 9yr old need to fire a full auto anything. That is asking for trouble. Sad but totally preventable

[Longitude Zero]

This is criminally stupid by everybody except the little girl. I have seen full grown adult males loose control of a select fire UZI. Allowing a 9 year old child to fire one is so far beyond the curtain of intelligence. I pray for the girl only. As for the adults involved including the instructor I have ZERO sympathy as educated adults would not have made or allowed this monumental blunder.

[jocko]

boy u hit that nail right on the head. STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. I can't believe the video. This guy had to have zero brains, a real shame he ha dto die to prove the supidity of his actions though. I feel sorry for the little gal for maybe right now she is clueless as to what it will effect her life down the road. She did nuttin wrong IMO and WTF where was her parentsin alalthis ****. A real shame and a black mark to the shooting industry to. the liberals will go with this like thereis no tomorrow, I guessif any good can be siad of this, the little girldid not shoot herself...

[TheLastDaze]

no matter how you look at it accidents happen, negligent or otherwise doesn't matter how you dot your i.... where's the compassion here?? pointing fingers like any of us are any better, sometimes you just don't think of the consequences to your decision at the spur of the moment...

fact is someone lost a dad,a husband, brother etc... we need to get off the high horse and acknowledge this as a tragedy..... plain and simple we lost a brother in arms who thought was doing a good thing by letting a little girl shoot, he made a deadly mistake that cost him his life.... he won't get a "why did I do that" like alot of us have had in the past over something stupid we've done, and if you haven't had one of those moments you're lying to yourself...

at the end of the video as soon as she starts shooting it it veers to left, right at his heart....

I for one will be praying for everyone on both side of the family's.....

[getsome]

Holy smokes how stupid can you get!!!....While you're at it why not let your 9 year old wrestle a 10 foot alligator and play with some cobras for God's sake....At the very least that Uzi should have been chained down to the bench for even an adult to shoot one...I feel horrible for the little girl I pray she understands it wasn't her fault at all and as for the parents I bet they were playing with their cell phones when it happened........Just Damn is all I can think of to say....

[downtownv]

Even smart people do stupid things.....

[ltxi]

I feel bad for the kid. As to the "instructor"....natural selection.

[knkali]

WOW I know we are all praying for that little girl and the family of the retarded instructor.

[hardknocks1]

Wow
While I agree this was not smart and should never have happened I'm surprised of the responses where people don't feel bad someone died.
Just wow!

[jocko]

I feel bad for the guy, i really do, can't take back what happened, Just gotta hope that sopme damn good cmes from this, I'm not sure what though. IMO common sense should have prevailed here, not making a quick buck... Its sad, this was a young man to, not some ol foggy like Muggsy who is expendable. Just sayin

[muggsy]

I feel bad for the guy, i really do, can't take back what happened, Just gotta hope that sopme damn good cmes from this, I'm not sure what though. IMO common sense should have prevailed here, not making a quick buck... Its sad, this was a young man to, not some ol foggy like Muggsy who is expendable. Just sayin

One thing is for sure. He'll never do that again. I may be expendable, but I'm not entirely worthless like one old sheep herder whose name will go unmentioned, Jocko. (Oops, I mentioned his name.)

[Harrylee]

My lord why was this little girl shooting a full auto and from what I heard she was a New Jersey girl not saying that’s a bad thing but you can’t handle full auto in jersey so how can you teach it or did she ever handle a gun before? I believe with such a young person you need to build up and not go for full auto. Get a bolt action one shot at a time this how a skill is learned , you don’t hand a 357 snub nose to someone that never shot before and say go ahead . It’s a shame and now it’s the presses to turn this into a gun issue we as gun owners need a dumb mistake. Now the press will have there way with this

http://abcnews.go.com/US/girl-accide...ry?id=25139216