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Re: Boy, 8, shoots himself to death at Mass. gun show
Oh my god. How does this happen?
I know people who work at that hospital...it must be insane there right now.
What happens at gun shows? I thought people just bought guns. But they are apparently loaded? Jesus...wtf is wrong with people?
Does anyone else find it REALLY odd that his father is an ER doc? My assumption (clearly erroneous) was that ER docs see so much gun violence that they are very much opposed to gun use.
Perhaps I watch too much "Trauma: Life in the ER"
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
It was a shooting expo, where the club provides different types of guns for people to try out under instructor supervision. I've been to one (at a different club) for a women's gun safety course and it was actually kind of neat, but it was also very professional, very safe, and there were no automatic weapons. They interviewed one old guy who said he had even resigned from the club board a few years ago after they had voted to include automatics in the show, since he felt it as asking for trouble. I think he had thought crazy young men trouble though, not 8 year olds with their dads. All the members they spoke with with equally appalled that anyone, dad or club instructor, would let a kid even hold one, and most even stated they thought charges should be brought.
What a senseless, avoidable tragedy.
That does make a difference. A rifle has a lot of recoil to it. I would still never let a child of 8 fire one, but seeing as how he has handled a rifle it's not as crazy to let him handle an Uzi. I would like to know if the dad tried it out first, to feel how much recoil it had. I also wonder if other 8 year olds shot the weapon without incident.
It could also be that the child thought that because it was smaller than a rifle, it would not have much recoil. It's the surprise of the recoil more than the actual force of it that can get you in trouble.
I still think this was horrible and showed incredibly bad judgment, but at least I can see what the dad might have been thinking.
I find these statements contrdictory. Can a gun person explain?
From article:
It was his first time shooting a fully automatic machine gun, and the recoil of the weapon was too much for him....
"It's easy to lose control of a weapon like that ... they are used on a battleground for a very good reason," said Jerry Belair, a spokesman for Stop Handgun Violence....
He said his family avoided the larger weapons, but he let his son try the Uzi because it's a small weapon with little recoil.