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…
In a similar incident in 2008, 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj shot himself to death with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun show organized by a former police chief. The boy was with his father, an emergency room doctor, who bought him the gun for Christmas
(Washington Post, August 27, 2014)
Parents have been warning their children about the dangers of playing with fire since time immemorial … for obvious reasons. But you know something has gone terribly wrong when parents themselves have to be warned about the dangers of teaching their children to play with guns … for even more obvious reasons.
Yet America’s crazed and anarchic fascination with guns is such that this warning now seems necessary.
Mind you, I would have a little sympathy if this (inherently irresponsible) instructor were teaching her to use a basic pistol or rifle. But a friggin’ Uzi?!
The reason this happened, of course, is that her idiot parents probably think no child is too young to experience the full potential of her hallowed and unconditional Second Amendment right. But I wonder how they feel now about having to help a child this young deal with the trauma of killing someone so senselessly.
I warned it would be thus:
The United States is calling North Korea insane for threatening to launch ‘merciless’ nuclear strikes against it. Well, I suppose it takes an insane country to know one. After all, one can fairly call the United States insane for vowing to curb gun violence without making any reference to guns…
Hell, at this rate, the NRA will soon be proselytizing such a mercenary interpretation of the Second Amendment that gun-loving Americans will be claiming the right not just to military-style assault weapons but to shoulder-fired missiles too.
(‘This Gun-Control Debate Is Insane,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 5, 2013)
All we need now is for some kid to misfire an M134 General Electric Minigun and kill everyone within range of 1000 yards:
The minigun is one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed, with the capacity to fire up to 166 bullets per second. Amazingly, it is currently legal in the United States to own this military-grade machine gun because the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 stated that any fully automatic weapon constructed before that year was legal to own.
(The National Memo, December 14, 2012)
A gun for Christmas indeed; I fear they will never learn….
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* This commentary was originally published yesterday, Wednesday, at 1:31 p.m.