Posted on 08/26/2016 10:31:12 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The children of an Arizona gun instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old firing an Uzi at a gun range are filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the business's owners.
"The gun range created an unsafe and dangerous environment that ultimately lead to my dad’s death" said Ellie Vacca, the 17-year-old daughter of Charles Vacca, on "Good Morning America" today.
The gun instructor’s family spoke to ABC News exactly two years after the tragic accident, saying they want the owners of shooting range to be held responsible.
The wrongful death suit claims that the mini Uzi 9MM that fired the fatal shot should never have been placed in the girl's hands.
"What we have here is a complaint that says the operation we saw where Charlie Vacca was killed was fundamentally unsafe. It's fundamentally unsafe to give machine guns to children," said James Goodnow, the attorney representing the Vacca family in the suit.
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FYI.
The kids are right, but their father was largely at fault.
HE placed the UZI in the girl’s hands.
This lawsuit is stupid and frivolous. The gun instructor was responsible for his own death, and his family is not entitled to get rich on his own reckless conduct.
What a horrible tragedy.
Between the Glock lawsuit article posted yesterday and this one, I begin to wonder if some of the more prominent, anti-gun advocacy groups are taking advantage of these poor folk's grief and encouraging them to file lawsuits, hoping for some legal precedent to be established.
Just speculating at this point.
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And who put the gun in the kid’s hand? And who was the professional who was supervising or supposedly supervising the entire session?
I shoot. When I bring a guest to the range I am responsible for their shooting and if anything happens I am liable. I am not a professional although I am a long time experienced VERY CAREFUL shooter.
This guy had a real unfortunate accident, but the only person to blame is him. Not the gun range, not the kid and not whether or not children should have access in a controlled - or should be controlled - environment.
I agree. He should have at least put a lanyard on the gun to anticipate muzzle rise.
They wouldn’t do THAT would they??
(Sarcasm)
I'm guessing the entire Ghebremedhin family have difficulty with spelling.
BINGO
Who was supervising the shooting session? Was the guy who shot the expert who should have been watching the whole scene?
It’s the target manufacturer’s fault. Obviously the target must have looked too much like the gun instructor confusing the 9 year old.
He was shot by a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL with a fully automatic UZI. As the safety office/instructor, it was HIS responsibility to make sure she didn’t shoot anybody, including him.
I have had to teach 3 people to shoot, who never shot before.
I KNEW what was going to happen the first time they shot- so I held onto their hands while they pulled the trigger- the very first time you shoot a gun the recoil is unfamiliar and you NEED TO HAVE A PRACTICE.
I was in the Air Force security police the first time I went for handgum training and it surprised me enough that the gun almost popped up out of my grip.
that should be the first question you ask someone- have you ever fired a gun before? and if the answer is no, you HOLD ONTO IT
This instructor was dead because he handed a mchine gun to a person who never fired one. the repeated recoil forced the weapon up aand to the left where it shot him.
He should have been behind her AND helping to brace her just in case.
Whoever put the Uzi in the hands of a nine-year-old for one.
This whole suit is crap.
But the ambulance chaser atty smells a payday coming.
“I begin to wonder if some of the more prominent, anti-gun advocacy groups are taking advantage of these poor folk’s grief and encouraging them to file lawsuits, hoping for some legal precedent to be established.”
I’d bet serious money on that.
Awful.
That is my understanding. If *HE* is the one who handed that gun to the little girl, tragic though it is, it is pretty much his fault.
It would not matter on whose premises he did such a thing, so therefore I do not see how the owners of the range can possibly be held responsible.
If however someone else, and especially someone connected with the range, did it, then the owners may very well have some liability.
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