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Child firing Uzi at Ariz. shooting range accidentally kills instructor, police say
CNN ^ | August 28, 2014 | Steve Almasy, AnneClaire Stapleton and Ray Sanchez, CNN

Posted on 08/28/2014 7:05:52 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals

A shooting instructor is dead, the victim of a gun-range accident. A 9-year-old girl is surely traumatized. And plenty of people, including many gun enthusiasts, are asking: Why give a child a submachine gun to shoot? Snip

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: childinstructor; uzi
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This is a bit disturbing on many levels. Video at CNN stops just before the burst hit the instructor in the head.
1 posted on 08/28/2014 7:05:52 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

This is a tough one.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 7:11:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SpeakerToAnimals; mabarker1

Stoopid “instructor”.....Darwin opines the survival of the fittest...physical, and mental....jus’ sayin’...


3 posted on 08/28/2014 7:11:18 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

Several years ago an adult was killed by his own rifle, an SKS. Stored with the hammer not cocked, the firing pin rusted tight to the bolt.

When he loaded the rifle and released the bolt, the rifle slam fired all ten rounds, the recoil made him lose control and the rifle recoil flipped the rifle back and killed the shooter.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 7:11:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

The child did not kill that guy. The instructor caused the gun to go out of control. The girl just did what she was told to do by the instructor.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 7:13:05 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

He should have been holding the weapon with her. Even some adults can’t handle these types of firearms.

Its a shame. The left will use it to push their agenda.


6 posted on 08/28/2014 7:13:23 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

guess that FB post didn’t work out. Sorry to be flippant, but I have to think it was more about the ‘adults’ than the 9 yo that will have to live with this.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 7:13:58 PM PDT by az wildkitten (8 years 'til I retire)
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The little girl must be traumatized. I am having trouble feeling sympathy for the instructor. Tough one indeed.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 7:15:07 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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I heard from an idiot friend “She murdered him”.

Pathetic

Tho, I did tell him:

“You know, there’s a difference between losing yourself to your wife and losing yourself in her”...

Subtle difference but, it’s there.


9 posted on 08/28/2014 7:15:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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The child did not kill that guy. The instructor caused the gun to go out of control. The girl just did what she was told to do by the instructor.

Sad but true.

10 posted on 08/28/2014 7:17:26 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Vendome

This is almost a suicide.


11 posted on 08/28/2014 7:19:07 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: driftdiver
Its a shame. The left will use it to push their agenda.

Some folks like to use any old tragedy.

12 posted on 08/28/2014 7:21:05 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: az wildkitten

Truth is not flippant. You are correct.


13 posted on 08/28/2014 7:22:39 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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“The child did not kill that guy.”

Lets not be Clintonesque. Of course the girl killed the guy. Her actions (i.e. inability to operate the firearm) caused the firearm to shoot at unintended directions. Am I asking for her arrest? No. But her parents must be held accountable (in a civil suit). Also, the instructor was a freaking moron. No doubt about that.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 7:22:40 PM PDT by sagar
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It’s definitely Darwin...

But, I told my friend he had, in fact, committed suicide.


15 posted on 08/28/2014 7:27:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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The instructor was doing a good thing that went terribly wrong. It may be she squeezed before he was done instructing her.

My prayers to him and his family. She'll get past the trauma. She'll be fine. We all have bad memories. We learn to bury them to survive.

16 posted on 08/28/2014 7:27:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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shooting instructor

What form of training or certafication did this person ??

A trained Certified NRA Instructors are trained in
Development Learning is part of Firearms Training.


17 posted on 08/28/2014 7:30:10 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: sagar

Yeah, whatever.


18 posted on 08/28/2014 7:30:56 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

What form of training or certafication did this person HAVE ??


19 posted on 08/28/2014 7:34:36 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: driftdiver

Pushing their anti-gun agenda at a time that our society is threatened by ISIS, is sending the wrong signal.

The left had better explain why they want to disarm the American people when its government does not even have a clear plan to defend them.

Are they siding with the terrorists?


20 posted on 08/28/2014 7:35:58 PM PDT by 353FMG
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